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I was reading the news today and thought about Gen. Paul von Hindenburg.

Here we go. The perfect incident just took place last night for creating chaos, conflict, and division when Dylann Storm Root decided to channel his inner Satan to slaughter innocent people praying at a church. Unlike the predecessors in the Soviet Union, China, and various fascist regimes during the past century, our leftists usually don't concoct phony incidents to propel their agenda. They wait, patiently, sometimes for years, waiting for an incident which can be used to promote their agenda. The agenda right now is fundamental transformation, and transformation is a revolutionary action that requires angry, focused masses gathered to...

Advice and help would be appreciated to get rid of a little nagging problem I've had with Free Republic. For some reason, whenever I initially open the Free Republic website, I get the list of articles posted on Aug. 21, 2012. The right-hand column of articles is up to date, however. I've hit refresh and looked through my settings, and everything seems fine there - although I know that there could be dozens, maybe hundreds of settings I'm unaware of. In any case, I'm exceptionally tired of seeing those same articles about the senatorial candidate from Missouri filling my screen...

The following was posted by fellow Freeper stansblugrassgrl on Thursday 2 August... >>>We plan to go on Friday, too, and join the kiss-in. We’ve been traditionally married for nearly 32 years and enjoy kissing very much. Thought we’d bring some balance to the event. ;-)<<< Here's my response: >>>BRILLIANT! Please make this thought go viral before Friday. Urge everyone to go to the CFA and start kissing alongside the gay couples. This is the perfect response - funny, in their faces, and mocking them. I’d also buy the gay kissing couples some lunch just to show how much they’re appreciated.<<<...

DAWSON CITY, Yukon - There are a lot of problems that can befall trail markers — treacherous conditions, dangerous overflow, deep snow and trails littered with fallen brush. But an unexpected challenge for the Canadian Rangers who broke the Yukon Quest trail in Canada? Wolves stealing trail markers.

I have just finished reading through what appears to be the 1,518-page manifesto and handbook of the alleged perpetrator of the worst terrorist attack in Norwegian history. The manifesto, bylined by someone calling himself Andrew Berwick, is entitled "2083: A European Declaration of Independence" and was posted on Stormfront.org, a white supremacist website, and discovered by American blogger Kevin I. Slaughter. [UPDATE: Norwegian TV has confirmed that the author is indeed the Oslo shooter, according to the New York Times.] In it, "Berwick" declares himself a "Justiciar Knight Commander," a leading member of a "re-founded" Knights Templar group formed at...

Hallelujah Chorus -Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat 5th Grade -Quinhagak, Alaska

Woody Allen has a strange take on the democracy that allowed him to become rich and famous. The "Scoop" director said it would be a cool idea for President Barack Obama to be dictator for for a few years. Why? So he could get things done without all the hassle of opposing views getting in the way.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, Dec. 21, 2009) - Cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), both already implicated in depleting the Earth's ozone layer, are also responsible for changes in the global climate, a University of Waterloo scientist reports in a new peer-reviewed paper. In his paper, Qing-Bin Lu, a professor of physics and astronomy, shows how CFCs - compounds once widely used as refrigerants - and cosmic rays - energy particles originating in outer space - are mostly to blame for climate change, rather than carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. His paper, derived from observations of satellite, ground-based and balloon measurements as well...

Alaska’s two U.S. senators are offering conflicting views on the merits of the health care bill under consideration by the U.S. Senate this week. SNIP: The bill reauthorizes the Indian Health Care Improvement Act for the first time in 21 years- a major accomplishment pushed for by Begich and eight other senators. It also protects Alaska Natives from penalties for not acquiring insurance and expands coverage to other public programs.

Sarah Palin resigned more than a week ago but a state watchdog agency and the courts are still sorting out issues left over from her time as governor. In one lingering issue, the Alaska Public Offices Commission has refused Palin's request to keep secret the discounts that come from her husband's Arctic Cat sponsorship. APOC also said Palin needs to disclose all the gifts she received last year, rejecting her interpretation that she doesn't need to until after she gets around to actually opening the gifts.

Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. ‘Transparent aluminium’ previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion.

This morning I had a sudden thought about Sarah Palin’s future and party politics in general... what if Sarah is going to go solo? I was thinking about Rush establishing his own “network” when setting up his show, and how surprisingly different that was in the late 1980s, and, similarly, how the producers of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” did the same thing setting up their own “network” to broadcast their own show. I don’t mean for those examples to seem trivial; if you’re in broadcasting, you recognize how those programs and others like them at the time changed the...

JUNEAU -- Gov. Sarah Palin shocked and awed just about everybody around the Capitol on Wednesday when she announced she's expecting her fifth child. The governor, who recently turned 44, told a handful of reporters as she was leaving work to expect a new member of the first family, then headed to a reception at the Baranof Hotel to feast on king crab. Palin said she's already about seven months along, with the baby due to arrive in mid-May. That the pregnancy is so advanced astonished all who heard the news. The governor, a runner who's always been trim, simply...

ASHEVILLE, N.C., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. climatologist said there was no consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed for a new ice age. Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center said a survey of scientific journals of the era showed that only seven supported global cooling, 44 predicted warming and 20 others were neutral, USA Today reported Thursday. "An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting 'global cooling' and an 'imminent' ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about...

A late-season cold snap that descended on Fairbanks nearly a week ago is expected to lift on Sunday, ending what so far has been the winter’s harshest cold spell. The low temperature of 44 degrees below zero at the Fairbanks International Airport on Friday morning was the lowest temperature this late in the winter since 1964, according to meteorologist Rick Thoman with the National Weather Service in Fairbanks. It marked the second straight day with a low temperature of 40 below or colder and the fifth day in a row the low was at least 35 below. But there is...

WASHINGTON - Large percentages of high school seniors are posting weak scores on national math and reading tests even though more of them are taking challenging courses and getting higher grades in school, say two new government reports released Thursday.

Did you know that more clothing is stained on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year? Of course you didn't--it's fiction. But it's a good bet this made-up factoid will someday be repeated as fact. Super Bowl week, known for putting the "hype" in hyperbole, is a fertile time for sprouting tall tales. Call it the event that launched a thousand lies, including these commonly cited classics: Two-thirds of all avocados sold in the United States are purchased for consumption during the Super Bowl. Water department officials across the country fearfully await the "halftime flush," when millions...

High suicide rate for older white males WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Older white males have the highest suicide rate in the United States, said the Population Reference Bureau in Washington. Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the United States with 11 suicide deaths per 100,000 Americans. For white males over the age of 65, the rate is almost triple that figure. White males are more than eight times as likely to kill themselves as women of the same age and the risk increases as they get older, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Suicide experts are unable to...

People who drink alcohol are up to four times more likely than non-drinkers to be hurt from physical injuries such as a fall or punch, new research shows.