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Swine Flu Cases Overestimated? CBS News Exclusive: Study Of State Results Finds H1N1 Not As Prevalent As Feared (CBS) If you've been diagnosed "probable" or "presumed" 2009 H1N1 or "swine flu" in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu. In fact, you probably didn’t have flu at all. That's according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation. The ramifications of this finding are important. According to the Center for Disease Control, CDC, and Britain's National Health Service, once you have H1N1 flu, you're immune from future outbreaks...

What in the world ever became of the Sandy (whoops, they slipped into my socks)Berger case. It seems to have vanished faster than it was revealed?

Sorry about the vanity post, but does anyone really know who Clintons father was? With his angling for the Secretary General of the U.N. and with the exclusive safe harbors he is always given, where does this guy come from and how is he so vigorously defended? Does anyone think his conveniently deceased mother knew?? Sorry I blew this post so bad the first time..!

Okay fellow Freepers, don't throw rocks and don't send me any tinfoil beanies. Here's a fair observation and I'm wondering if any of you are making the same observations as I have regarding the strange outbreaks of illnesses across the U.S. It really started to hit me as odd, with West Nile, the cruise ship illness outbreaks,the unexplained deaths of students near Hershey, Pennsylvania, the outbreaks now of antibiotic resistant Strep in Texas and the Marine Corps tragedy in San Diego where one marine has passed away and over 100 Marines have been hospitalized with a potentially life-threatening form of...

To the tune of Camp Granada: Ode to Johnny Walker Hello mother hello father Here I am at camp El Qaeda Boys are killing Boys are maiming And there'll even be more fun when we stop training. Flying aircraft into cities Bombing buildings into pieces In Mill valley Life's not this thrilling No there's nothing quite like brutal senseless killing. Wait a minute something's wrong here Now the ground is Up in the air Allah waits me After dying Oh I really hope Usama was not lying. That Bin Laden He's an asshole He's got me lying in this foxhole ...

Deputy fired into Columbine library Ballistic evidence belies statement, sheriff's report By Kevin Vaughan, News Staff Writer Among hundreds of pages of Columbine documents released in recent months were ballistics reports that may spark new questions in a pending lawsuit and may be used to challenge statements made by the first deputy on the scene of the April 20, 1999, tragedy. At issue are documents showing that Neil Gardner, the Jefferson County sheriff's deputy assigned to Columbine High in 1999, fired three shots into the school's library from his position next to a Chevrolet Blazer in the student parking lot. ...

COMING TOMORROW Middle East-OKC connection David Schippers tells Metcalf feds 'ignored' warnings of WTC attacks © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com "I am thoroughly convinced that there was a dead-bang Middle Eastern connection in the Oklahoma City bombing. I think bin Laden was behind it." The words of a conspiracy theorist? Hardly. It's David Schippers, the respected House impeachment attorney, discussing astonishing revelations on alleged links between the Oklahoma City Bombing and Osama bin Laden, as well as clear warnings he says the U.S. government received in advance of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Author of the explosive bestseller, "Sellout: The inside story ...

This was sent to me by a friend, I don't know the author and I don't know who the letter was originally sent to. What do we as Freepers', make of this? Dear Friends, The following was sent to me by my friend Tamim Ansary. Tamim is an Afghani-American writer. He is also one of the most brilliant people I know in this life. When he writes, I read. When he talks, I listen. Here is his take on Afghanistan and the whole mess we are in. - Gary T. Dear Gary and whoever else is on this email thread: ...

CARA: Living in the Soviet Union of America Diane Alden June 25, 2001 Recently, the Moscow Times had a story about the new Russian Land Code. The bill spells out the way the sale of commercial and private land to Russian and foreign nationals is going to be handled. According to the Russian Duma, no limits are set for the amount of land that can be owned by individuals and companies. The new code allows foreigners to buy land, but the thing the communists don't like is that 98 percent of the country could be sold off for private ownership. ...

US spy plane captured Bush orders warships to China Sea AMERICAN warships were steaming towards Chinese territory last night as the row over a downed US spy plane deteriorated into a stand-off reminiscent of the Cold War. As the Chinese continued to deny access to the EP-3 and its crew on the island of Hainan, President Bush, facing the first real test of his foreign policy, issued a terse rebuke to Beijing over its failure to hand over the plane and permit communication with the 24 airmen and women. The crew had been forced to make an emergency landing on ...

Death in the Afternoon By Hunter S. Thompson For once in his life, Hunter nails it! The violent death of Dale Earnhardt hit the sport of professional auto racing harder than anything in memory since the assassination of John Kennedy. People who'd never even watched a NASCAR race were deeply disturbed by it, for reasons they couldn't quite explain. It seemed to send a message, an urgent warning signal that something with a meaning beyond the sum of its parts had gone Wrong & would go Wrong again if something big wasn't cured -- not just in racing, but in ...

Drudge Screws Conservative Base! Once again, Matt Drudge has seen fit to eliminate another group that helped give him his start. Last year, Free Republic was his first conservative victim, eliminating all references and links to FR from his own Drudgereport web site. The crescendo has risen for good old Matt apparently, for I now see that Newsmax no longer has a place on the Drudgereport either. I think it's obvious Freepers, that Drudge has found conservatism to be keeping him out of the main stream and that he must consider us a liability. TOO BAD! Mr. Drudge, you have ...

Drudge Screws Conservative Base! Once again, Matt Drudge has seen fit to eliminate another group that helped give him his start. Last year, Free Republic was his first conservative victim, eliminating all references and links to FR from his own Drudgereport web site. The crescendo has risen for good old Matt apparently, for I now see that Newsmax no longer has a place on the Drudgereport either. I think it's obvious Freepers, that Drudge has found conservatism to be keeping him out of the main stream and that he must consider us a liability. TOO BAD! Mr. Drudge, you have ...

My gosh Alex, Kimmy,Barbra and Eddie, your really leaving us now. How Sad, I'll miss watching you squirm over the last five weeks like the worms that you are. Pick a nice Socialist Third-World country to live in, 'cause we don't want you all here anyway!! Hold on, take Jesse Jackson with you, will ya?

Time on Line is running two polls, same question, on the same page. Both with different results and vote counts. One is text link towards the top right of the page, the other is midway down on the left. I know I posted this earlier, but now the context is much different. Is this fraud? TIME POLL

Check out these results! Keep in mind how "conservative" Time is. Do you think the so-called dimpled ballots should be counted?" Total Votes Cast: 211618 Time Poll

A history professor from Uppsala University in Sweden read an article in which a Zimbabwe politician was quoted as saying that children should study what is going on in the US elections closely for it shows that election fraud is not only a third world phenomena. This is a letter I recieved, my responses are in bold. Heavy dis-information. Points of View A history professor from Uppsala University in Sweden read an article in which a Zimbabwe politician was quoted as saying that children should study what is going on in the US elections closely for it shows that election ...

How powerful is Carnivore? New documents raise questions about FBI surveillance tool WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 — The FBI’s controversial e-mail surveillance tool, known as Carnivore, can retrieve all communications that go through an Internet service — far more than FBI officials have said it does — a recent test of its potential sweep found, according to bureau documents. An FBI official involved with the test stressed Friday that although Carnivore has the ability to grab a large quantity of e-mails and Web communications, current law and specific court orders restrict its use. Nevertheless, privacy experts said they are worried about ...

The right to seek justice is undeniable in Florida AUSTIN -- Bliss it was in that very dawn to be alive. Of course, we all need to behave like grown-ups -- the fate of democracy, great principles and all the money that these people have spent are at stake here. But this episode also has the virtue of being incredibly entertaining, thus providing us with national drama headed for the history books. Jokes are flying on the Internet. Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat have offered to mediate the election for us. Slobodan Milosevic called to suggest that Palm Beach County ...

New Time Poll: Do you think that voters in Palm Beach County should be allowed to re-vote? Currently: