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  • Barack Obama Birth Certificate is not real.

    11/06/2008 1:35:14 PM PST · by Demosthenes · 378 replies · 19,101+ views
    Various, Factcheck.org and snarkybites | 11/6/8 | Demosthenes
    Forgive me for rehashing this if anybody is tired of reading it, but I finally did all of the research for myself, and have some info you may not have seen. Barack Obama has never shown his birth certificate. Allow me to explain. A "certification" of live birth is a copy document, accessible by the public, or government agencies, and usually a relatively legally acceptable document in most scenarios. You can use it at the DMV, or to get a passport. A "Certificate" of live birth is the actual document itself, created on the day/moment of the event, and it...
  • MISSILE TRAIL PHOTO

    09/19/2002 8:12:11 PM PDT · by Demosthenes · 79 replies · 572+ views
    self ^ | today | Demosthenes
    Here is the pic: Okay, you got me....any ideas? Why did it not dissipate for ten minutes?
  • MTV's new "War Role": Have you seen this?

    12/18/2001 2:38:12 PM PST · by Demosthenes · 35 replies · 215+ views
    MTV ^ | 12-18-01 | Demosthenes
    I post this with apologies...I did a search and found nothing on this topic... I wanted to ask if any of you in FReepland happened to have seen the new series of ads being run on MTV.They are titled "Who's Spinning the War on Terrorism?" and appear to be pure propaganda. They ask they question out loud, and then spend about two to three minutes in "news-flash-byte-style" running through the names of five top Bush Cabinet members, culminating with Ari Fleischer, whose responsibilities, according to MTV's authoritative and snide ANNOUNCER, are to "spin the Bush perspective as hard and fast ...
  • That will be $700, thank you very much!

    11/08/2001 2:57:26 PM PST · by Demosthenes · 4 replies · 1+ views
    smh.com ^ | 11-08-01 | Paul McGeough
    Caught between naive largesse and practised corruption, Paul McGeough ponders the effect of war on the countries surrounding Afghanistan. The last time I was in Afghanistan, I found it impossible to clutch a plastic water bottle while hanging on to the reins of a horse as we galloped over rivers and up mountains. So I designed a sock into which the bottle would fit, with a strap to sling over my shoulder, and took my drawings of it in search of a Dushanbe seamstress. Autumn is ending and the day was wet and bleak. But I found 20 women huddled ...
  • If the Taliban won?

    09/28/2001 10:12:35 AM PDT · by Demosthenes · 25 replies · 583+ views
    Self ^ | 09-27-01 | Demosthenes
    Just one reason we can't let the Taliban win.
  • **my title** From the mouth of Bill Clinton

    09/13/2001 2:09:02 PM PDT · by Demosthenes · 4 replies · 2+ views
    Palo Alto Daily News ^ | 09-12-01 | Ron Fournier
    The following is an excerpt from an article in yesterday's paper, titled "Bush faces test of historic proportions after attacks": Clinton Backs Bush He had to show the nation and the world that America would not run from a fight, but first he had to be safe. ...Clinton refused to talk about the political implications, saying Bush has enough on his hands. "It's going to be difficult for him because you feel this as a human being and as a citizen, as well as a leader," Clinton said in a telephone interview. "The President will handle this just fine. He'll ...
  • Rebuild...and send a message.

    09/12/2001 12:52:47 AM PDT · by Demosthenes · 3 replies · 2+ views
    me ^ | 9-12-01 | Demosthenes
    I needed to laugh, because I'm tired of crying.
  • Grumble in the Jungle

    08/15/2001 3:44:36 PM PDT · by Demosthenes
    Daily News Online Edition ^ | 08-15-01 | Rush & Molloy
    Hollywood and Africa seemed to clash during the filming of the Will Smith biopic on Muhammad Ali. Extras in Mozambique recently griped that they weren't paid what they were promised for the re-creation of Ali's "Rumble in the Jungle" against George Foreman. Mykelti Williamson, who plays promoter Don King in "Ali," also is lamenting, "The anticipation was high for all of us to go to Africa . . . and once we got there, we were all very sad. We experienced tremendous theft. Anything you left in your room disappeared, even small things like toothbrushes and Q-tips. I'm really having ...
  • Zogby's "impartiality"

    07/19/2001 2:08:59 PM PDT · by Demosthenes
    Today's Zogby Poll ^ | 7-19-01 | Demosthenes
    Question from today's Zogby Poll: Thinking of the debate in Congress over the Patients' Bill of Rights, some members of Congress believe that patients should have the right to sue HMOs and their employees with a monetary cap of $5 million in jury awards. Lawyers and consumer groups support these members. Other members of Congress believe that patients should have the right to sue only HMOs with a monetary cap of $500,000 on jury awards. Business and health associations support these members. Which legislative path would you like to see succeed? A. Right to sue with $5 million cap B. ...
  • DNC Bumper Sticker

    07/06/2001 4:16:20 PM PDT · by Demosthenes · 123+ views
    self | today | Demosthenes
    Inspired by another post I read earlier here today...
  • The Personal Flying Machine.

    06/25/2001 3:03:40 PM PDT · by Demosthenes
    www.solotrek.com ^ | today | Demosthenes
    There is no article, really, just a website: WWW.SOLOTREK.COM I posted this because I thought you all might be as fascinated by an honest-to-goodness personal flying machine as I was. There was a news blurb here in SF recently, discussing how the US Army gave this company 5 million dollars to finish the prototype, because they believe in this project, and want to equip our soldiers with them. After Uncle Sam gets his, they said they wanted to make them available to the general public, at about the cost of a nice sports car...either way, chances are 95% that this ...
  • Boy Convicted of 2nd Degree Murder

    05/16/2001 4:28:44 PM PDT · by Demosthenes
    AP ^ | today | I didn't bother to look
    Boy Convicted of 2nd-Degree Murder The Associated Press Wednesday, May 16, 2001; 2:09 p.m. EDT WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. –– A jury convicted a 14-year-old boy of second-degree murder Wednesday for shooting his English teacher, rejecting a more serious charge that could have put him in prison for life. Nathaniel Brazill had insisted that the shooting of popular English teacher Barry Grunow, 35, on the last day of school a year ago was an accident. The teen, an honor roll student without any previous criminal record, faces 25 years to life in prison on the second-degree murder count. He ...
  • This American Apologizes to China

    04/04/2001 2:51:08 PM PDT · by Demosthenes · 164+ views
    Demosthenes ^ | today | Demosthenes
    Dear China, As an American, please let me offer your country my sincerest apologies for several things we, as a nation, are very sorry for. First, we're very sorry your other fighter did not go down in raging ball of fire as well. We hoped that it would. Maybe next time. Second, we're sorry that because of your many shortcomings, both physically and intellectually, you are unable to conduct yourselves as anything other than a group of rice-fueled red Napoleon midgets. We remember Waterloo, do you? Third, we're really sorry that you can't seem to build anything "cool" on your ...
  • Friends, Please freep this poll.

    03/28/2001 10:14:03 AM PST · by Demosthenes
    http://www.2think.org/gunpoll.shtml
  • Julia Roberts unloads on Bush

    03/16/2001 12:16:59 PM PST · by Demosthenes · 67+ views
    The Drudge Report ^ | Today | Demosthenes
    In the above listed article, ole' satchelmouth is spouting again. Oblivious to the fact that she is alienating over half the people who pay to see her movies, (excluding yours truly, who hasn't paid for anything she put out since the Bruce Willis debacle) Miss Roberts, the second smartest woman in the world, continues to say things like "Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant... I looked up Democrat. It's of the people, by the people, for the people." Let's set the record straight, since Miss Roberts' reading skills are obviously as poor as her ...
  • On Reparations and the Daily Cardinal...

    03/09/2001 10:23:00 AM PST · by Demosthenes
    Demosthenes | tomorrow? | Demosthenes
    Please, ask Sarah Turner to refrain from writing further until she completes her education, and learns how to distinguish reality from fantasy, or perhaps open your pages and print the prose of all the mentally deficient, and maybe we'll get something more interesting to read than Reparations: Slavery's Lingering Shadow. Aside from the fact that it is utterly ridiculous to expect me and the rest of my German-Irish family (who had nothing to do with slavery) to support inanity like reparations through our tax dollars, it is lunacy to expect a nation full of white citizens who never owned slaves ...
  • Out You Liars

    01/22/2001 11:37:56 AM PST · by Demosthenes
    Demosthenes ^ | 01-22-01 | Demosthenes
  • Jesse Jackson: Racist Threats

    12/11/2000 2:05:23 PM PST · by Demosthenes · 22+ views
    Demosthenes | 12-11-00 | Demosthenes
    Once again, The Reverend Jesse Jackson, media whore and black racist hate-monger, began spouting more of his racist rhetoric during his visit to Washington D.C. today. After listening to the SCOTUS hear yet another round of arguments, Jackson emerged to news cameras and his yes-men in the press area. He then made an interesting comment, according to the AFP. "Even if this court rules against counting our vote, it will simply create a civil rights explosion," said the Reverend Jesse Jackson …”People will not surrender to this tyranny," he stressed, pointing out that civil rights and labor organizations had agreed ...
  • Revenge

    11/20/2000 7:58:03 PM PST · by Demosthenes
    self | 11-20-00 | Demosthenes
    An interesting idea was voiced on the Savage Nation Radio Program. It would take little effort to show our dissatisfaction with the wholly biased media community in our country by turning them off. If the televisions we own were turned off and left that way for a period of 24 hours, we could make certain that our disgust with the media and this theft of our Presidency were known to the entire world. While many people in the U.S. would like to find a way to protest, they have no organizer to co-ordinate it, or perhaps they aren't comfortable with ...
  • Why you should be a DemocRAT.

    11/20/2000 4:41:30 PM PST · by Demosthenes
    My own self | 11-20-00 | Demosthenes
    A large number of conservatives are growing ever more restless with the GOP. Their ineffective campaign is fueling the anger of a base that can now clearly see why their candidate can't seem to push the little red train over the top of the hill: He's a weak-minded racist homophobic warmonger who only wants to save little unborn babies so that he can fry them in an electric chair later. Republicans are realizing that their best bet may be to never vote again. Certainly it would be an easier life on welfare, but the most compelling realization that conservatives are ...