http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/barkingmoonbat/ en-us Thu, 7 May 2009 18:58:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246293/posts Many of the tourists filing past the White House since Barack Obama's inauguration have been taken aback by the weekday sight of silent, orange jumpsuit-clad, black-hooded protesters standing on the sidewalk as a reminder to the president that approximately 240 men are still being detained at the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison. When my daughters joined me Easter Monday morning to be part of the Catholic Worker 100-Days Campaign to Close Guantanamo, we donned our jumpsuits and hoods and proceeded slowly through Lafayette Park to take our positions along Pennsylvania Avenue. Children gawked in wonder, asking their parents why we were... News & Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246293/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2009 18:58:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142164/posts     When Seattle artist Deborah Lawrence was asked to create an ornament for a holiday tree at the White House, nobody familiar with her work could have imagined she'd stick to snowmen, Santa Claus or Mount Rainier bathed in festive red, white and blue.That Lawrence submitted an ornament with the words "Impeach Bush" on its surface is also no surprise, except to the people responsible for picking her.     Photo courtesy Deborah Lawrence   Artist Deborah Lawrence holds the ornament that will not hang on the White House Christmas tree. The 9-inch ball Lawrence created is covered with... Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142164/posts#comment Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:24:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2138769/posts Well, Michael Schaffer of The New Republic has a few things to say about you: ...the president-elect, according to his more fervent campaign-season detractors, has a raft of unforgivable faults: He's a socialist, a Muslim, an actual love-child of Malcolm X. His birth certificate was missing, his book had been ghost-written by William Ayers, and his wife, "Mrs. Grievance," as a National Review cover dubber her, was perennially on the cusp of getting caught ranting against the white man. The only thing keeping the Illinois senator's infamy from going public is the quiescence of the liberal media. Perhaps you remember.... myrightword http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2138769/posts#comment Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:29:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094636/posts Cynthia McKinney says 5000 executed Katrina used as cover. News Type: Event — Tue Sep 30, 2008 Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney announced for the first time on Sunday that she has received information that some 5000, mostly male, possibly prisoners were killed execution style, by single gunshot to the head, using the tragic events of hurricane Katrina as a cover. Candidate McKinney made the announcement at a conference in Oakland, Ca, for the Critical Resistance 10 on Sunday. While speaking she informed the audience that she has received information from a sources that were involved in the clean-up and disposal... Newsvine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094636/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 05:18:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058348/posts Ten years ago today, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed, causing a devastating loss of life and signaling that the United States faced new and more serious terrorist threats abroad and potentially at home. That potential became a reality on Sept. 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked, causing an even more devastating loss of life and sending an even clearer signal regarding the necessity of a smart and focused response to a challenge that could no longer be ignored. Unfortunately, President Bush did not get the message. He and his neoconservative advisers... Capital Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058348/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 00:53:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056201/posts Is it possible to fall out of love with your own country? For two years, I, like many Americans, have been focused intently on documenting, exposing, and alerting the nation to the Bush administration’s criminality and its assault on the Constitution and the rule of law — a story often marginalized at home. I was certain that when Americans knew what was being done in their name, they would react with horror and outrage. Daily News Egypt http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056201/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:25:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022220/posts When the national political conversation turns to excessive nastiness, will the media remember The Huffington Post? On Bush's last Memorial Day as Commander-in-Chief, Democratic activist Bob Geiger posted an article titled "Dead Troops Remembered by President Who Had Them Killed." Bush is a murderer? Geiger says yes: "Make no mistake about it, George W. Bush is as responsible for the deaths of those men and women as if he himself had fired the bullet or set the IEDs that ended their lives." What's interesting is that your usual Huffington Post blogger doesn't have anywhere near the same amount of hatred... newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022220/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 01:24:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950901/posts ROBYN O’BRIEN likes to joke that at least she hasn’t started checking the rearview mirror to see if she’s being followed. But some days, her imagination gets away from her and she wonders if it’s only a matter of time before Big Food tries to stop her from exposing what she sees as a profit-driven global conspiracy whose collateral damage is an alarming increase in childhood food allergies. Ms. O’Brien has presented her views, albeit in a less radical wrapper, on CNN, CBS and in frequent print interviews. Frontier Airlines and Wild Oats stores distribute the allergy-awareness gear she designed.... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950901/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:43:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921742/posts Rosie O’Donnell, who abruptly left “The View” on ABC last spring after drawing attention and ratings for her opinions on everything from the Iraq war to her co-hosts, is in serious discussions to return to television atop a new soapbox: a prime-time show on the cable news channel MSNBC, according to executives on both sides of the negotiations who have been briefed directly. Under one scenario, Ms. O’Donnell would be given the 9 p.m. slot each weeknight on MSNBC, where she would go head-to-head with two heavyweights of cable talk: “Larry King Live” on CNN and “Hannity & Colmes” on... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921742/posts#comment Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:23:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899027/posts It is mid-afternoon in an airy, lower-Manhattan flat, on the ninth floor of a posh-looking building with a doorman. It is a bit dark and there are no lights on. There is a strange quiet feel to the flat, perhaps due to the lack of any appliances - no fridge humming, no TV interference, even no air conditioning, though it is hot and humid outside. Walk into the bathroom, and you will notice that there is no toilet paper, no bottles of shampoo or toiletries. In the kitchen, berries and cheese are laid out on the counter and there are... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899027/posts#comment Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:48:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1898513/posts "University of Florida student Andrew Meyer struggles with University Police as officers try to remove him from a question and answer session with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, in Gainesville, Fla. Meyer, 21, was Tasered and arrested after he angrily and repeatedly tried to ask Kerry about the 2004 election and other subjects during a campus forum.""University of Florida student Andrew Meyer speaks with university police after being removed from a forum where Sen. John Kerry was speaking in Gainesville, Fla., Monday Sept. 17, 2007. Meyer, 21, was Tasered and arrested after he angrily and repeatedly tried... Yahoo! News Photos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1898513/posts#comment Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:57:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897161/posts AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush’s economic policies. However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897161/posts#comment Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:21:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875355/posts No, I’m not kidding. Here’s a paraphrase of what he said: ...the only reason Bush is talking about fatalities is because he didn’t give MN enough money to maintain the bridge. Right, Ed. Because it’s the President, and not Congress, who appropriates highway funds for roads and bridges. What’s more, have we really departed so far from our federalist roots that we’re now blaming the President of the United States for not properly maintaining a bridge in Minneapolis (if that is indeed why the bridge went down)? What about local city officials? County road inspectors? State highway department people? The... Say Anything http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875355/posts#comment Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:35:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861437/posts Just five short weeks ago, terrorist sympathizer Cindy Sheehan staged a public hissy fit and announced she was quitting the Democratic party and the antiwar movement over the failure of the Democrats to end the war in Iraq and personal attacks she received from liberals for criticizing the Democrats' failure.Now, claiming to be motivated by the commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence by her arch-nemesis, President Bush, Sheehan has announced a world tour commencing in the president's hometown of Crawford, Texas, on July 10.Sheehan says she will travel on foot to New Orleans, Ft. Benning, Washington, D.C., New York City... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861437/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:16:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1841925/posts New documents ensure Dubya will rule America, should calamity strike. Free balloons! It's just one of those obscure little unreported-upon conspiracy theory-ready hunks of floating White House detritus, a couple of odd, sticky, foul-smelling documents no one really wants to touch and no one knows quite what to make of, probably means nothing, probably being misread anyway, all a bit overblown and strange and not all that important and not all that different than the way things are now. Unless, you know, it's not. Unless the violent twinge of queasy paranoia crossed with that uncontrolled bout of colon-clenching sighing you... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1841925/posts#comment Wed, 30 May 2007 14:48:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1841128/posts Cindy Sheehan, the so-called "Peace Mom" who gained national attention protesting President Bush's Iraq war policy by remaining camped in a ditch near his Crawford, Texas, ranch, has issued a resignation letter as the face of the American anti-war movement. "Good-bye America," Sheehan writes in her online diary, "you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it." Sheehan says she came to her "heartbreaking conclusions" this Memorial Day morning, saying, "These are not spur of the moment reflections, but things... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1841128/posts#comment Mon, 28 May 2007 23:22:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829116/posts KENT - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan would like to see today's college students become more active against the war in Iraq. ``I wish college students cared enough about what's going on in Iraq and our country to be as committed as the students were in 1970,'' Sheehan said in an interview an hour before she was to address a crowd at Kent State University on the 37th anniversary of the Kent State shootings. Sheehan, 49, whose son Army Specialist Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq in 2004, said she does not wish for any protest to become violent, but she... Akron Beacon Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829116/posts#comment Sun, 6 May 2007 08:44:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1813391/posts "Rotten Tomatoes UK can exclusively reveal that Kevin Smith's next project - a horror movie - is called "Red State". Up until now Smith has revealed little about the film other than the fact it's a horror movie and it'll be decidedly less joke-y than his back-catalogue. But, in addition to the title, Smith was keen to give us a head's up on the plot of the film. If you've seen any of his "An Evening With..." DVDs, you'll know how much fun it can be to sit down in an audience and listen to "Clerks II" director Kevin Smith... Rotten Tomatoes UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1813391/posts#comment Sat, 7 Apr 2007 00:29:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1813949/posts Is the Clerks and Dogma creator next going to attack middle America, Conservatives, Republicans and Christians in an upcoming movie? It certainly seems so with a recent interview he gave that appears on the moviefan website called Rottentomatoes.com. Smith, known for his irreverent skewering of conventional mores, seems to be in the midst of production on a horror movie based on a "Fred Phelps" styled character. UK audiences recently saw documentary journalist Louis Theroux spend time with members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, a controversial church group made largely of members of the Phelps family and run... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1813949/posts#comment Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:47:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1789981/posts New Yorkers got to kick President George W. Bush's butt on Thursday, sort of. Performance artist Mark McGowan kicked off his bid to crawl for 72 hours across Manhattan dressed as the president, offering the opportunity to kick his backside. The controversial artist from London began his odyssey from New York's Lincoln Centre wearing a rubber George Bush mask, a business suit, knee pads, work gloves and a sign stuck to his cushioned posterior reading simply: "Kick My Ass". brudirect.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1789981/posts#comment Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:19:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779510/posts No commercial that appeared last night during Super Bowl XLI directly addressed Iraq, unlike a patriotic spot for Budweiser beer that ran during the game two years ago. But the ongoing war seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this year’s commercials. More than a dozen spots celebrated violence in an exaggerated, cartoonlike vein that was intended to be humorous, but often came across as cruel or callous. New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779510/posts#comment Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:21:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1773533/posts Seriously! I heard him use this term repeatedly on his show to describe Barack Obama. When is enough-enough? What does this **** have to say to finally send his ass to the ass-heap of history? When are advertisers, station managers, sales represtatives and the American people going to say "you've had your ***** fun - you racist ass, pill-popping, no talent Republican aplogist Ass-pickle, pole smoking prick" - YOU'RE ***** FIRED.What does it take? How many outrages do we have to endure? Perhaps the Department of Defense can ask all the "Halfrican's" in the military how much they love having... Obsesive Liberals having Fun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1773533/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:24:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769718/posts Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) believes Karl Rove was behind CBS’s infamous Bush National Guard memos. Today on Sean Hannity’s radio show, Hinchey asserted that Rove “presented” the documents so that CBS would pick up the story. “There’s a significant amount of evidence,” he insisted, while conspicuously failing to provide any. Two years ago Congressman Hinchey made a similar claim at a community forum in Ithaca, New York. A LGF reader was there and recorded what he said. Audio is available at Little Green Footballs. HotAir http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769718/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:39:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1766588/posts In her historical mystery, "The Daughter of Time," Josephine Tey (a pen name of Elizabeth MacKintosh) has Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant, while confined to his hospital bed, solve the 15th century murder of the two York princes in the Tower of London. The princes were murdered by Henry VII, and the crime was blamed on Richard III in order to justify the upstart Tudor's violent seizure of the English throne. Tey makes the point that if a 20th century mystery writer can detect the truth about a 15th century murder, historians have no excuse to persist in writing in... NewsMax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1766588/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:11:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750700/posts In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney announced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush. The legislation has no chance of passing and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush but also at Democratic leaders. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made clear that she will not entertain proposals to sanction Bush and has warned the liberal wing of her party against making political hay of impeachment. McKinney, a Democrat who drew national headlines in March when she struck a Capitol police officer, has long insisted that Bush... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750700/posts#comment Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:49:15 GMT