http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/adiosmofo/ en-us Sat, 4 Oct 2008 04:47:33 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097225/posts OJ Simpson jury to announce decision tonight in Las Vegas at 10pm Pacific. KFI in Los Angeles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097225/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 04:47:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079418/posts Well placed but unnamed sources close to anonymous high-ranking members of the Democratic campaign speaking confidentally have revealed a new line of attack against Governor Sarah Palin (R), John McCain's vice-presidential running mate. "It's true that our polling data shows we are really taking a bitch-slapping right now, and we're looking to staunch the hemorrhaging. Anything that puts us on the attack and gets the enemy's panties in a wad is seen a a giant plus. "For the first time in history the American people have the opportunity to elect to the vice-presidency someone who is menstruating. And if there... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079418/posts#comment Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:02:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079268/posts It just keeps getting better. According the head of the South Caolina Democrates, Gov. Palin's main qualification for being VP is that "she hasn't had an abortion" By Nov. 4th, will the "ONE" get even one single vote from a female? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079268/posts#comment Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:27:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078631/posts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama should do two things about GOP vice presidential pick Sarah Palin. The first is repeat: "I´m running against John McCain and I´m running for president not Vice President." He should keep repeating that as many times as it takes to get him to back off the distracting, pointless, and self-absorbing amount of time he´s spent knocking her. The strength of his appeal and campaign has always been that he´s taken the political and ethical high ground. He´s stuck to talking about the issues of tax cuts, the Iraq War, the economic meltdown, health care, the... The American Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078631/posts#comment Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:43:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066499/posts DALLAS — Illegal immigrants are returning home to Mexico in numbers not seen for decades — and the Mexican government may have to deal with a crush on its social services and lower wages once the immigrants arrive. The Mexican Consulate's office in Dallas is seeing increasing numbers of Mexican nationals requesting paperwork to go home for good, especially parents who want to know what documentation they'll need to enroll their children in Mexican schools. "Those numbers have increased percentage-wise tremendously," said Enrique Hubbard, the Mexican consul general in Dallas. "In fact, it's almost 100 percent more this year than... FOXNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066499/posts#comment Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:07:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052978/posts Officials: Al Qaeda's Mad Scientist Killed One of al Qaeda's top chemical and biological weapons experts was killed in an air strike by a CIA pilotless drone in a remote Pakistani border region, senior Pakistani intelligence officials told CBS News Tuesday morning. Intelligence officials investigating the Sunday night missile attack confirmed that Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri was one of six men killed and his remains had been positively identified. "We now have a positive ID on the body. I can confirm to you that Al-Masri has been killed," CBS news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052978/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:09:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052287/posts Retired General Antonio Taguba, the officer who led the Army's investigation into Abu Ghraib, recently wrote in the preface to the new report, Broken laws, Broken Lives: "There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account." Should those who ordered war crimes be held to account? With the conclusion of the Bush regime approaching, many people are dubious, even those horrified by Administration actions. They fear a long, divisive ordeal that... The Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052287/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:42:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047093/posts Father of victim says U.N. body's order 'don't mean diddly' Texas is refusing to bow to yesterday's World Court order to stay the Aug. 5 lethal injection of convicted rapist-killer and illegal alien Jose Medellin. (snip) Texas Gov. Rick Perry's office rejected Mexico's complaint. "The world court has no standing in Texas, and Texas is not bound by a ruling or edict from a foreign court," Perry spokesman Robert Black said. "It is easy to get caught up in discussions of international law and justice and treaties. It's very important to remember that these individuals are on death row for... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047093/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:46:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032437/posts Bush may have done a service to us all. The eight years gave us lay offs and unemployment not seen since the great depresion, wars and attrocities commited in the name of advancing american multi corporate agenda and white Christianity, we saw the rich get richer and the poor become even more poor, we heard slogans such as jobless recovery, strategery, modern economy, trickledown effect Ad nauseum. The values of Bush are the values of the capitalist system, another word for fascism. the eight years of Bush proves capitalism is a failed system. We see more debt, unemployment and 100... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032437/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:25:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031292/posts I wish you all the best. I have tried to post tributes to the Army, info on Obama's horrendous run for office and McCain's slightly less horrible attempt. I wish you all the best but FR is just as likely to exclude people from the deabte as anyone else. They have that right, freedom to cleave to whoever you like is a right I agree with but I am guessing I am not one Jim wants associate with. I wish you all the best but I am bowing out of this forum. Have a great life. God bless u all! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031292/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:17:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029618/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029618/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:14:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991264/posts WASHINGTON — President Bush overstepped his authority when he ordered a Texas court to grant a new hearing to a Mexican on death row for rape and murder, the Supreme Court said Tuesday. In a case that mixes presidential power, international relations and the death penalty, the court sided with Texas 6-3. Bush was in the unusual position of siding with death row prisoner Jose Ernesto Medellin, a Mexican citizen whom police prevented from consulting with Mexican diplomats, as provided by international treaty. An international court ruled in 2004 that the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexicans on death... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991264/posts#comment Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:41:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987374/posts It was a horrible, shocking, unnerving experience. Reading some of the things Barack Obama's pastor has said, I suddenly saw something with which I completely agree!! He said five days after 9/11: "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye...." His point: Chickens were coming home to roost. I agree. We certainly committed terrorism and murder when we dropped two atomic bombs on open cities in Japan. And, as Ron Paul has said, correctly, re: 9/11: The terrorists were over here because,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987374/posts#comment Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:54:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984454/posts ALBANY, New York (CNN) -- Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday that he will step down from the state's top office and promised to "atone for my private failings" with family members. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984454/posts#comment Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:52:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981171/posts Shi'ite cleric and leader Muqtada Al-Sadr was secretly transferred a few days ago from Iraq to Iran for hospitalization as he was comatose. It was reported that his illness resulted from food poisoning. Al-Sadr is being treated by Iranian specialists, as well as by Russian doctors brought in to help the Iranian medical staff treat him. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981171/posts#comment Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:43:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980310/posts U.S. forces found, targeted and killed in a Somali desert city the senior al Qaeda operative who masterminded the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa and had since spent a decade in hiding, The Washington Times has learned. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who is one of the FBI's most-wanted terrorists, was the target of a U.S. missile strike on a residence in Dobley, a small town in southern Somalia near the Kenyan border, according to a U.S. military official who spoke to The Times on the condition of anonymity because of the nature of the operation. Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980310/posts#comment Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:01:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969529/posts DAMASCUS BLAST ON TUESDAY KILLED SENIOR HEZBOLLAH MILITARY COMMANDER - LEBANESE POLITICAL SOURCE Reuters (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969529/posts#comment Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:52:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1960581/posts Hey, Freepers Want do you think if instead of Bush winning in 2000 McCain won? How would have McCain have done on the issues of the day compared to Bush? Courts, LAWS, Policies, ect http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1960581/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:41:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1757812/posts Remote detection satellites are used by the intelligence branch of the military to conduct mind control exercises in the theater of war. All this technology is dependent upon the higher branches of particle physics and quantum mechanics. The array of satellites safe in deep space cover the entire earth making the mind control intelligence program widely successful. Be amazed as you view this military program break out of the box. Go to the following web site that shows a real-time mind control zombie being manipulated by satellite and the military. www.MindControlUSA.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1757812/posts#comment Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:31:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950816/posts HAVANA - Philip Agee, a former CIA agent who became an outspoken critic of the agency and opened a travel site to bring Americans to Cuba in defiance of U.S. law, has died following ulcer surgeries, Cuban state media reported Wednesday. He was 72 msnbc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950816/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jan 2008 15:21:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949450/posts Hillary Clinton's campaign, anticipating probable defeat here in New Hampshire on January 8, is gearing up for an extended trench-warfare battle against Barack Obama. The former First Lady is planning to fight Obama in South Carolina on January 26, and in the gargantuan nationwide primary on Tuesday, February 5 -- with contests in 19 states, including New York, California, New Jersey, Georgia, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Colorado. If she remains competitive, Clinton's plan is to continue to compete in Louisiana on February 9, in Virginia and Maryland on February 12, in Wisconsin on February 19, in Ohio on March 4 --... The Hillary Project http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949450/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jan 2008 05:58:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940479/posts A senior Islamic militant, wanted by the US government, has been killed in a clash with the Philippine military in the nation's restive south, an official said Sunday. Abdul Mubin Sakandal, a leader of the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group, was killed during a joint navy and marine operation on the remote island of Tawi-Tawi, a military official said. Sakandal, also known as Abdurajak Mobin, had allegedly helped carry out a string of high-profile kidnappings of foreigners from resort islands in neighboring Malaysia and from the Philippine isle of Palawan. "Our naval elements neutralized Mobin ... during a dragnet operation at... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940479/posts#comment Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:04:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1917133/posts SAN JOSE, Calif. -- San Jose police said a protective pit bull played a part in the arrest of a man accused in the attempted sexual assault and burglary of a San Jose woman. According to police reports, the 31-year-old single mom had just returned to her home after a birthday celebration in June when she was attacked by a stranger who was already in her home. SJ Prosecutors Credit Dog For Cracking Sexual Assault Case | SLIDESHOW: View ImagesThe man began strangling her as she tried to stab him with her keys, police said. Then, the woman’s pit bull,... NBC11.com. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1917133/posts#comment Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:56:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914632/posts MADRID, Spain: An Algerian fugitive suspected of playing a key role in the Madrid terror bombings of 2004 died in Iraq while fighting U.S.-led forces, a newspaper reported Sunday. Spanish investigators learned from foreign intelligence services that Daoud Ouhnane died in Iraq in October or November 2006, El Pais said, quoting a confidential police report. The report said that after fleeing Spain following the string of bombs that targeted the Madrid commuter rail network on March 11, 2004, Ouhnane was in contact with suspected Islamic extremists in Spain's northeast Catalonia region in 2005 and 2006, El Pais said. Police could... AP via The International Herald-Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914632/posts#comment Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:05:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906767/posts DALLAS -- Two teens are dead after police said they tried to rob a security guard patrolling a shopping center parking lot overnight. Police said three men approached the security guard and told him to get out of his car just before midnight Thursday in the Golden Triangle Shopping Center near the intersection of West Redbird Lane and Highway 67. The security guard obliged and then fired his rifle at them, hitting two of three, according to police. One of those shot by the guard was Sergi Vann, 19, who died shortly after arriving at Methodist Medical Center. The other... NBC5i.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906767/posts#comment Fri, 5 Oct 2007 01:19:36 GMT