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Almost totality right now. If you have a clear sky, have a look! If not, click the link....

The Arizona Republican Party formally censured Sen. John McCain on Saturday, citing a voting record they say is insufficiently conservative. The resolution to censure McCain was approved by a voice-vote during a meeting of state committee members in Tempe, state party spokesman Tim Sifert said. It needed signatures from at least 20 percent of state committee members to reach the floor for debate. Sifert said no further action was expected. McCain spokesman Brian Rogers declined to comment on the censure. [snip]

I have a question for the Legal Eagles out there... The Census people are pi$$ing me off. First, I got a post card telling me a questionnaire is coming, then another post card. After that, a VERY thick envelope with a very long and intrusive list of questions about things from who lives here, how long, incomes, professions. Then there are questions like renting/owning, do I have a toilet, a refrigerator and the like. I wrote on the form there are two people of the human race living here and dropped it in the mail. Then I got a post...

In explaining the disastrous rollout of Obamacare, President Obama told Chris Matthews he had discovered that “we have these big agencies, some of which are outdated, some of which are not designed properly.” An interesting discovery to make after having consigned the vast universe of American medicine, one-sixth of the U.S. economy, to the tender mercies of the agency bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Internal Revenue Service. [snip] The paradox of this presidency is that this most passive bystander president is at the same time the most ideologically ambitious in decades. The sweep and...

A picture of a Jennie Stuart Medical Center employee wearing a President Barack Obama mask and a straitjacket was taken Friday at the hospital’s annual costume party.

OK, it's a vanity. Deal. I haven't heard this possibility brought up, but that might be because I haven't read every post. It's been a very busy week, and Obastard is doing his best to overflow the piss-off bucket. But, a thought dawned upon me yesterday when I was reading a story in IBD about the next big scary deadline coming up, the Debt-Limit that we're supposed to hit on 10/17. I think Obastard is being a total pr**k about shutting down parks, landmarks and private property because he's building up cred for a threat he intends to pull next...

Well, here we are. I made it to 15 years today! I've been here so long I was *never* a nOOb! But I love to meet new folks that find FR daily, so come on in, the water's purple. If you're a troll I have some kitties I'd like you to meet.... Shockingly, I got up this morning and saw I had not been suspended by the Mods, which was the case on a few of my anniversaries. Don't know how I avoided it this year, but somehow I managed...didn't avoid it a couple days before Mrs. Liberty and I...

Thank You John and Jim Robinson and the rest of the team! You guys did something great in the past 24 hours! The multiple pings are GONE and FR is FASTFASTFAST again! New server? Finally fixed that pesky bug? I dunno, but it's GREAT!

Pardon the vanity, but here goes. Has anybody received their W2 forms yet? The reason I ask is because, starting this year, many employers have to report how much they contributed to our health insurance premiums. This is a provision of Obama(mis)care. Here is a link from the Horses...mouth. Employers over a certain threshold number of employees need to start reporting this number, but it's only "informational" this year. In years to come, some of that number will be considered taxable income if it's over a certain amount, because it's considered "Cadillac Insurance." This is a tax "only on the...

I was thinking of trying Chrome operating system on my Parallels app on my Mac. Where do I find a download?

Hey Mr. Robinson! The FR clock is off by about 15 minutes again! If you have a moment, could you swing by and push the hands back again? Thank you....

I got this great idea! What if, instead of dropping bombs or even leaflets on the Jihadi hordes, what would happen if we dropped a whole bunch of shoes on them? Would they run crying to the Hague?

Hey gang! I've downloaded, and burned to CD, copies of the Koran (English and Urdu). Tomorrow morning, 9/11, 8:45 AM Eastern Time, I'm going to take it into my backyard and I'm going to set it on fire. Who's with me? You can download the files here:Mash here! Thanks and hat tip to freebird5850

What Just Happened to FR? I assume this posts, but I won't see any results until after the problem?

What Just Happened to FR? I assume this posts, but I won't see any results until after the problem?

This is stupid and a waste of money. I just received a first class letter from the Census, notifying me I'm going to get another letter from the Census next week. Are they getting a kickback from the USPS?

Thread for the Debate/Vote in Senate Finance Committee. Please post contact info here. If your Senator is on this committee, let him/her know how you feel! CSPAN was covering it until moments before I posted this, but CSPAN 3 is supposed to be streaming it later. Link is to C-3 stream.

A former Apache Junction High School freshman girls basketball and softball coach and Gonzaga University basketball star is being held in the Pinal County Jail on $750,000 bond in connection with an inappropriate relationship with one of her 16-year-old players. Raenna Jewell, 25, of Gilbert was arrested on suspicion of sexual conduct with a minor on March 29, three days after police received information from the girl’s mother about suspicious text messages between Jewell and the girl, according to Apache Junction police. Authorities later discovered that there had been some kind of inappropriate relationship, and that Jewell had sent the...

I usually can't stand vanities, but I haven't sen anything on this: McCain and Obama went to Ground Zero in NYC, and while I saw Cindy McCain, I have to ask...where was Michelle Obama? Why did she refuse to come to NYC to honor our dead?

Well FReepers, we've been played like a fine-tuned fiddle. The Pubbies in the house let us down again;. A swell publicity stunt to get drilling going again, and it turns out they were just screwing with us about having a set of rocks. They deserted us at the first sign of shot. And we ran up a multi-thousand post thread in hopes that they final got it. They did not. They screwed us. Again.