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Frequently Asked Questions What does the “W” stand for? The “W” stands for “Washington”. What percent of W Ketchup is made in America? 100%. Every ingredient is American. 100% American? What about your bottles? Yes, every bottle is made in America, every label is printed in America, and every step of the manufacturing process takes place in America. Where can I buy W Ketchup? W Ketchup is available on this website, and will be in select stores soon. How long can I keep W Ketchup? The shelf life of W Ketchup is 24 months. What are the ingredients? W Ketchup...

These comical pictures of Saddam at his trial use much too much bandwidth to post here, but here's the link: http://bigmixup.com/rockpapersaddam/

ABCNEWS: DRUDGE REPORT has 37.8% accuracy rate...

When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d 1 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d,   And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,   I mourn’d—and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.      O ever-returning spring! trinity sure to me you bring;   Lilac blooming perennial, and drooping star in the west,          5 And thought of him I love.      2 O powerful, western, fallen star!   O shades of night! O moody, tearful night!   O great star disappear’d! O the black murk that hides the star!   O cruel hands...

Amorous Swedes to Get Emergency Condom Deliveries 1 hour, 38 minutes ago Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish aid organization will roll out a new line of defense to the country's emergency services next week -- the condom ambulance. From Friday, June 4, amorous couples can call the telephone number 696969 and a white van featuring a large red condom with wings as a logo will deliver them a packet of 10 prophylactics. "We need to increase the usage of condoms," said Carl Osvald, marketing manager for the Swedish Organization for Sex Education,...

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MAKE YOUR OWN PRUNO AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL. By Eric Gillin 09.24.03 Pruno, a prison wine created from fruit, sugar and ketchup, is such a vile and despicable beast in the California state penal system that prisoners can't eat fresh fruit at lunch. Back in December 2002, the warden at Lancaster prison in Los Angeles County removed fresh fruit from box lunches in the maximum-security lockup, as an effort to reduce violence. Apparently, sober, scurvy-addled felons are much easier to control than drunken, violent convicts. So, perhaps this plan is flawed. And perhaps it's also worth...

I received a letter today from Mother Assumpta Long, superior of a fairly new religious order of Catholic nuns. I had known of Mother Assumpta earlier in connection with a new grouping of monks and nuns that was established after Catholic religious orders began to break down, betray their principles, and melt away in the wake of Vatican II. But the new order was news to me. It was founded under Cardinal O'Connell of New York, and later moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where with the help of Thomas Monaghan of Domino's Pizza it established a new house and began...

Wallace Street Journal Going South David Bond Sleepless and Solvent in the Silver Valley March 18, 2004 WALLACE, Idaho - Seems like it was only yesterday when the great Anaconda Copper Company broke its pick in South America - Chile to be exact - but it was actually 33 years ago. The train wreck that had once been the U.S. mining industry in South America was absolute and lethal. Yet the events leading up to it seemed, even to nominally intelligent Americans, each harmless in and of itself. But the net effect of this - to use the term employed...

The Errand McQuillan walked into a bar and ordered martini after martini, each time removing the olives and placing them in a jar. When the jar was filled with olives and all the drinks consumed, the Irishman started to leave. "S' cuse me", said a customer, who was puzzled over what McQuillan had done,"what was that all about?" "Nothin', said the Irishman, "me wife just sent me out for a jar of olives!" The Lost Luggage An Irishman arrived at J.F.K. Airport and wandered around the terminal with tears streaming down his cheeks. An airline employee asked him if he...

Canada's curious mining minister By: Tim Wood Posted: 2004/03/09 Tue 23:00 EST  | © Mineweb 1997-2004 TORONTO -- When government ministers address conferences, a waterfall of platitudes is inevitable, but Canada’s minister of natural resources, John Efford, actually managed to raise an eyebrow rather than a yawn.Officially opening the PDAC Convention for 2004, Efford said he has come to appreciate how natural resources is so important to “this government; this country”. If that didn’t make miners flinch, this should have: his notion that the purpose of creating wealth through mining is to feed government’s social services behemoth. A welfarist...

Nip in the air as piranha drops in Mark Oliver and agencies Friday February 20, 2004 As if the denizens of London did not already have enough to worry about trying to safely navigate muggers, backpackers and street performers, they now face a new threat: piranhas falling from the skies. It may be a discomforting thought, but earlier this week a seagull flew over London carrying one of the razor-toothed fish in its beak, which it then proceeded to drop onto the deck of a boat on the Thames. This, at least, was the theory put forward yesterday by the...

Some extremists, leftists, and Islamists and NYU have begun a petition asking the board of NYU to divest all funds invested in Israel. This is a bigoted piece of anti-Semitism, IMHO. Friends and faculty have established a website where people can sign a counter-petition. I believe Freepers who read the petition will find it completely unobjectionable. The website for the petition may be found at the link above. The wording of the petition follows, FYI. Signers of the petition already include members of the "community," Yeshiva students from New York, NYU students and faculty (not many of those yet, but...

Catholic Backlash Over BBC's Pope on a Pogo Stick By Pete Harrison LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of angry Roman Catholics have written to Britain's BBC complaining about a planned cartoon show mocking the pope as a puerile preacher on a pogo stick, the broadcaster said Tuesday. Petitions are circulating in parishes and some Catholics are even risking jail by refusing to pay television tax -- similar to a U.S. cable charge -- if the show goes out as planned this summer. "I am not prepared to pay for the Holy Father to be mocked," said human rights activist James Mawdsley...

OPINION Published February 3, 2004 Japan just can't switch to gold - yet By ANTHONY ROWLEY WHETHER a studied statement, an off-the cuff comment or a veiled threat, Japanese Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki's suggestion last week that Japan could diversify part of its huge foreign exchange reserves into gold has had international reverberations. It has brought home once more the fact that the vast dollar reserves which Japan and the rest of Asia hold are a Sword of Damocles for the dollar and the US Treasury market. The impact of such a move on the dollar would be severe....

I have long had an FR button on my browser toolbar, for convenient access to the forum. For some reason, when I hover my mouse pointer over the FR button, instead of getting the usual yellow tooltip, something like "Drudge Report 2003(c)" or "Free Republic News Forum" or in some cases just the URL, I get a little yellow tooltip that reads "500 Internal Server Error." I assume that these tooltips on the toolbar buttons are written by the web page at the time that a link is established. Maybe this one got installed when FR was down one day....

Who has Yamashita’s gold? By Rony V. Diaz A PAGE-TURNER of a book came out in September this year. It’s called Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave. The subtitle says it all. The US government got most of the gold that the Japanese Army looted in the countries it occupied. Some of the treasure trove, however, has not been found and the Seagraves believe it is in the Philippines. The story begins with General Douglas MacArthur. At war’s end he reported finding “great hoards of gold, silver, precious stones, foreign postage stamps, engraving...

Iron Age leader and his chariot found in motorway excavation By Paul Stokes (Filed: 03/12/2003) Archaeologists working at the site of a £250 million motorway upgrading scheme have discovered the remains of an Iron Age leader buried in his chariot. The find could provide a valuable insight into customs and social standings in pre-Roman northern England. Carbon dating suggests the funeral took place between 400 and 500BC with evidence of a huge feast. Chariot burial was reserved for people of high rank among the Parisii tribe, who lived in what is now east Yorkshire. They originated from northern France and...

Got gold? Posted: December 4, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Those of you who read this column regularly know that I haven't talked about the stock market, investing and such for a long time. That's surprised some folks, in that it's my stock-in-trade. I've gotten e-mails asking why I don't write columns with investment ideas. Certainly, the advice I proffered was pretty good, if I do say so myself. Among other things, I suggested shorting the Internet stocks (which subsequently crashed over 90 percent), buying gold – and the gold stocks – and buying various foreign currencies. Check my WND archives,...

Ramadan Rats   Print Friendly Format  E-Mail this to a Friend By Published 10/30/2003 12:53:54 AM WASHINGTON -- With the sudden eruption of violence in Iraq at the vestibule of Ramadan it is now apparent that at least someone reads American history, Saddam’s brutes and perhaps the terrorists from al Qaeda. American schoolchildren know very little American history, lost as they are in courses on gender genius and conflict resolution. Yet, our enemies in the Middle East remember the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive, and how while our army triumphed in Vietnam our politicians rendered the war unwinnable at home. Ahead of the curve once again, the...