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Police say a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos has overturned, spilling the cookies still in their plastic sleeves into the median and roadway. Illinois State Police Sgt. Brian Mahoney says the truck's driver was traveling from Chicago to Morris on Interstate 80 around 4 a.m. Monday when he fell asleep at the wheel and slammed into the median. "The boxes came out of the trailer and boxes were ripped open," he said. The crash about 50 miles southwest of Chicago remains under investigation. Mahoney says no charges have been filed but both lanes of traffic remain closed...

Great pics of the 'Angels. Graphic heavy...

McCain's speech reads like an attempt to unify a divided party by offering every faction something to make them happy. For the GOP's supply-siders and business interests, there are promises to extend the Bush tax cuts and slash corporate rates. For moderate Republicans clinging to seats in Democratic states, there's a pledge to cut the Alternative Minimum Tax, which hits upper-middle class Blue Staters hardest. For free traders, there's a shout-out to the Colombian Free Trade Agreement; for flat-tax obsessives, there's a call for an alternative tax-filing option, featuring just two brackets instead of four or five. For deficit hawks...

In the off-season we raced our boats across the world. Some crews raced to England. Others, Maine. We always raced to Bermuda. That first summer we were 19. Our skipper was 22. A newly commissioned naval aviator-select. Phil was his name. I remember he had long sideburns and drank too much. Navy's sailing team had a reputation for drinking as hard as we ailed. On the morning of my first open ocean Bermuda race we crossed the starting line upwind of the fleet in a perfect start right off Newport, Rhode Island's New York Yacht Club. I had nothing do...

(AP) NEW YORK -- Passengers on a plane leaving New York could see three words in 4-foot block letters painted on an East Village rooftop terrace as they ascended: GOOGLE RON PAUL. The entreaty to search the Internet for news of the Republican congressman from rural Texas is one of the more visible signs of enthusiasm from a do-it-yourself base of Web fans. Their support doesn't show up in public opinion polls, but it's unmatched among presidential candidates in its passion. On their own, the fans have developed a Ron Paul Revolution logo, marketing the idea through YouTube. Message boards...

Read the comments below .......then crank up the volume a bit. You'll have to watch this... it's unreal, 2.5 miles away, at night and it looks like they are right there. Heck of a weapon too... The pictures were taken from an AC130 Specter gun ship two and a half miles away. The guys in the picture are setting up a roadside bomb and planning to ambush an American convoy which followed a short while after the pictures were taken. They were setting up for the ambush and were pacing off the distance from the bomb to where the convoy...

Cox from the Land of Lincoln Here's a Republican candidate for president you've probably never heard of: John Cox of Illinois. Mr. Cox is a self-made millionaire businessman and former head of the Cook County Republicans who's been stumping in New Hampshire and Iowa trying to capitalize on the disaffection that voters feel toward the big three: Messrs. Giuliani, Romney and McCain. Mr. Cox stopped by our offices this week and I must say he has a good story to tell. He's trying to run a Steve Forbes-style renegade campaign and is promoting the Forbes constellation of issues. These include...

Being a die hard Chicago Bears season ticket holder I was lucky enough to be selected through the Bears lotto to get 2 tickets for the big game. My heart spoke more to me than the fan in me and I decided to give these tickets to some one who is more deserving to go. I contacted a friend who lost her son in Afghanistan last year and told her I wanted to send a disabled vet to the game. She put me in contact with Wounded Heroes Foundation. They suggested I offer the tickets to Sgt Bryan Anderson of...

New York, Feb 1 - The Rudy Giuliani Presidential Exploratory Committee announced today that Ed Goeas, Dave Sackett and Brian Tringali from The Tarrance Group, a prominent research and strategic consulting firm, are joining the committee as its pollsters. Goeas and partners Sackett and Tringali currently also serve as pollster to five Republican Governors, ten U.S. Senators, and forty-two Republican Members of Congress. “We’re thrilled The Tarrance Group has come on board and will lead our polling efforts. Ed Goeas, Dave Sackett and Brian Tringali are truly superior in their field, have stellar reputations and make an outstanding addition...

Texas Congressman Ron Paul files for GOP presidential bid HOUSTON -- Ron Paul, the iconoclastic nine-term congressman from southeast Texas, took the first step Thursday toward launching a second presidential bid in 2008, this time as a Republican. Paul filed incorporation papers in Texas on Thursday to create a presidential exploratory committee that allows him and his supporters to collect money on behalf of his bid. This will be Paul's second try for the White House; he was the Libertarian nominee for president in 1988. Kent Snyder, the chairman of Paul's exploratory committee and a former staffer on Paul's Libertarian...

I received an email that I suspect many on FR will have also. For those who have not, here it is: Last week, while traveling to Chicago on business, I noticed a Marine sergeant traveling with a folded flag, but did not put two and two together. After we boarded our flight, I turned to the sergeant, who'd been invited to sit in First Class (across from me), and inquired if he was heading home. No, he responded. Heading out I asked? No. I'm escorting a soldier home. Going to pick him up? No. He is with me right now....

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Boeing and the U.S. Air Force say they have achieved major progress in the development of a system to use mirrors to shoot laser beams at missiles. In a statement Monday, Boeing said it and the Air Force had successfully redirected a laser beam to a target using their Aerospace Relay Mirror System, or ARMS. The demonstration, conducted recently at U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory facilities at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., used a half-scale version of a system that ultimately could be packaged and carried to high altitudes on airships, long-endurance aircraft or spacecraft,...

Intermittent expeditions on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea, from 1994 through 2004, resulted in the compilation of eyewitness testimonies that substantiated a hypothesis that pterosaurs may not be extinct. Long Beach, Calif. (PRWEB) July 20, 2006 -- The conflict between evolution and creation took a new form with an investigation of reports of a pterosaur-like creature in Papua New Guinea. According to standard models of science, all pterosaurs became extinct by about 65-million years ago, but traditional interpretations of the Bible suggest that they lived in human times. According to Jonathan Whitcomb, a forensic videographer who interviewed native islanders in...

By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - President Bush took a jog Tuesday with a soldier who lost part of both legs in Iraq, following through on a bedside promise even the president had doubts about at the time. Despite a slight drizzle, Bush and Staff Sgt. Christian Bagge took a slow jog around a spongy track that circles the White House's South Lawn. About halfway through their approximately half-mile run, Bush and Bagge paused briefly for reporters. "He ran the president into the ground, I might add," Bush said, as the two gripped hands in an emotional, lengthy...

Basically, no "best of" or "compilations" albums. These are the best albums that you could listen without skipping a track. I broke it down by decade. The 1960's: Beatles - Revolver Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For The Money The Stooges - The Stooges Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I Zombies - Odessey and Oracle Cream - Disraeli Gears The 1970's: Big Star - #1 Record Neil Young - After the Gold Rush Modern Lovers...

Well its that time of year, folks. Do you remember? Its right around this time when Republicans and Conservative start heading for the hills during an election year, sure as hell that our agenda and mission are doomed, doomed, doomed. The President isn’t fighting back, the Liberals have captured the agenda, the Media is out for blood, and there is nothing we can do but sit back and wait to lose big in November. “What is the President thinking?” “How can we beat the Democrats with all this bad news happening around the world?” “The economy isn’t as good as...

from "Hannity & Colmes," ... SEAN HANNITY...from San Francisco tonight, the board of supervisors here overwhelmingly voted to reject a plan last year that would bring the historic World War II Iowa battleship right here to San Francisco harbor, as a museum and tourist center. We're now joined by one of the supervisors that voted against that plan, Gerardo Sandoval is with us. You don't want a symbol of war in the harbor. Is what you said to me. GERARDO SANDOVAL: That's right... it's a warship and it's got guns on it. It fires things. You know, you can't deny...

Okay, just walked in the door from watching "Serenity". I walked in to the theater prepared to be dissapointed- and, man, was I NOT dissapointed! In point of fact, it blew me away! Now as in any movie, there are plot points and physics (especially the physics in this one!) that could ruin the story for you if you let them. I chose to ignore these things, and just enjoy the movie. I don't want to put any spoilers here- but I have to say that Mal Reynolds (the ship's captain) is a character that any Freeper could respect, and,...

Top blogs by unique audience: FreeRepublic, DrudgeReport, FleshBot, Gawker, FarkComScore Networks published a list of top blogs in Q1 2005 by unique audience. FreeRepublic, DrudgeReport, FleshBot, Gawker and Fark all got more than 1 mln unique visitors in Q1 2005....

EMAIL OF THE DAY: "I would hope to see you over here in theater running your pie-hole about your calls to remove Marines from their post for the 'New Testament' inscription on the main battle tank. You would be buried with your insurgent 'friends' that you support, through your criticism of our men and women dying for this mission with a bulldozer. For your safety, I would not even be around soldiers, airmen, or marines. Treason is a high crime and misdemeanor and the price is quite high. Your actions border on treason. You could not survive the long days,...

I was looking for some information on an essay I have to write and I came across your page. I Love George W Bush and I love republicans! You all rock! Keep up the great work. God Bless you and your work. College, University and Campuses Hate Bush. They threatened harassed and vandalized us, but thank God Bush won. Wonderful page!

NO 1 - JOHN KERRYNO. 2 - DAN RATHER AND CBSNO. 3 - LIFEGUARD TED KENNEDY NO. 4 - ELECTION NO. 5 - THE MEDIA NO. 6 - MURDERING SWINE ARAFAT NO. 7 - CLINTON LIE-BRARY NO. 8 - HOLLYWOOD ELITIST SCUM NO. 9 - DEMOCRAT SCOUNDRELS AND SCUMBAGS NO. 10 - GEORGE W. BUSH - FIRST TERM NO. 11 - W2 INAUGURATION

Okay, so I'm doing my nightly FReeper thing, reading new posts, visiting the threads that I've been pinged to, etc..etc. Nothing new, I've been doing this for several years now, pretty much on a daily basis. I don't start too many threads (because frankly, nobody really wants or needs my 2 cents). But tonight I've had it. I can't bite my tongue any more. I've got to vent. Why are there A LOT of Freepers who insist on commenting on topics that they have no idea what the hell they're talking about? I just got done reading the thread about...

Mr. Woodhouse has just published my fathers story about his service and sacrifice in Vietnam in 1969. He did an assume job capturing the details and telling a true story about love, war and freedom. Please read it if you have a moment, it will touch your heart. Click on the beaches living at the website and it is the first two stories on the site.

Photo : AFP LONDON (AFP) - US pop star Madonna made a rare foray into politics, calling for her home country to withdraw its troops from Iraq during an interview with British radio."I just don't want American troops to be in Iraq, period," she said on BBC Radio."My feelings are 'can we just all get out?'," said the 46-year-old star, who lives mainly in London with British film director husband Guy Ritchie, who said she believes the US-led war will not help in the fight against terrorism.

Posted by Foxtrot on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 13:05 Look at the progress box! We have passed 1 million downloads, people! No more proof is needed. ;-)

U.S. AIR FORCE Two of Four Quads Experience Life in Iraq By Master Sgt. Debbie Aragon 407th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs TALLIL AIR BASE, Iraq, July 30, 2004 — One is the older, “more mature” sister, freely giving advice and guiding her younger sibling -- even if she is only senior by about two minutes. The sisters, two of a set of quadruplets born to Joanne and Reginald L. Brown Sr., are deployed here together from their home units at Kadena Air Base, Japan. Airman 1st Class Lattrice Goldsby, a fire protection journeyman with the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer...

1. Like Hitler, President Bush was not elected by a majority, but was forced to engage in political maneuvering in order to gain office. 2. Like Hitler, Bush began to curtail civil liberties in response to a well-publicized national outrage, in Hitler's case the Reichstag fire, in Bush's case the 9-11 catastrophe. 3. Like Hitler, Bush went on to pursue a reckless ultra-nationalist foreign policy without the mandate of the electorate. 4. Like Hitler, Bush has accordingly improved his popularity ratings, especially with veterans and conservative Republicans, by mounting an aggressive public relations campaign against foreign enemies. Just as Hitler...

COUNTDOWN (383 DAYS) TO VICTORY '04 Remarks by the President on the Economy and the War on Terror (AWESOME SPEECH) For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary October 16, 2003 President Bush Discusses the Economy and the War on Terror Remarks by the President on the Economy and the War on Terror Radisson Hotel and Convention Center San Bernardino, California Audio 9:38 A.M. PDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Thanks for coming. Thanks for the warm welcome. It's great to be in the Inland Empire. (Applause.) With the 38th governor of the great state of California....

Tony Blair is ready to sack Cabiet rebels Robin Cook and Claire Short within the next 48 hours if they do not fall into line on Iraq.The Prime Minister met with all available Cabinet members individually yesterday to demand that they pledge their loyalty to him and express their support for military action.He is determined to deny his outspoken critics-and any other wavering ministers-theopportunity to resign at a time of their own choosing to maximize their impact. Leader of the House Mr. Cook was in Belgrade for the funeral of assassinated Serbian Prime MInister Zoran Djindjic yesterday- and many colleagues...

Tanks and soldiers of the 7th Armored brigade gather for a briefing by US Lieutenant General Jeff Conway Commanding General 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in the Kuwait desert, March 14, 2003. Leaders of the United States, Britain and Spain will hold an emergency summit on Sunday in a last-gasp diplomatic effort to overcome opposition in the U.N. Security Council to a resolution paving the way for war on Iraq (news - web sites). (Dan Chung/Reuters)

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 April 28 Doomed Star Eta Carinae Credit: J. Morse (U. Colorado), K. Davidson (U. Minnesota) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA Explanation: Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when - it may be next year, it may be one million years from now. Eta Carinae's mass - about 100 times greater than our Sun - makes it an excellent candidate for a full...