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This email came my way and I am posting it for a weekend change of pace from the fabricated news dumps. It brings a lot of thoughts to mind, especially in view of the headline incident in Afghanistan two weeks ago. GOD BLESS our men and women in service.

"On the night of Barack Obama’s rally in Tucson..." (continued)

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Rank Program Network Day HH Rating Viewers (000) 1 WHEEL OF FORTUNE CTD MTWTF.. 5.8 9,052 2 JEOPARDY CTD MTWTF.. 4.9 7,337 3 TWO-HALF MEN-SYN (AT) WB MTWTF.. 4.3 6,838 4 ESPN NFL PRESEASON THU ESP …T… 3.9 6,173 5 JUDGE JUDY (AT) CTD MTWTF.. 4.2 5,888 6 ESPN NFL PRESEASON ESP M…… 3.6 5,523 7 FAMILY GUY-MF-SYN (AT) 2/T MTWTF.. 3.0 4,912 8 ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT(AT) CTD MTWTF.. 3.4 4,827 9 CSI NEW YORK-SYN(AT) CTD ……S 3.4 4,712 10 EVRY LVS RAYMOND-SYN(AT) CTD MTWTF.. 3.1 4,482 11 OFFICE-SYN (AT) NBU MTWTF.. 2.8 4,367 12 WHEEL OF FORTUNE WKND CTD ……S...

POSTER OPPORTUNITY Photos of Mall, post: Beck Restores Honor, and post: Obama Left Trash

You can download this as a Word document, to print out & surprise a liberal, here. George W. Bush proposed to quadruple the U.S. debt, which took two centuries to accumulate, in one year. What kind of world was he trying to leave us with? George W. Bush flew over a badly flood-ravaged state, on his way to a swanky fundraiser, without so much as a stopover. Was he not heartless? George W. Bush visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language". Does that not tell you he was ignorant? George W. Bush spent hundreds of thousands of...

ABC’s Jordyn Phelps reports: President Obama may have a thing or two to learn from Tiger Woods’ golf game, according to an upcoming article in the January edition of Golf Digest. But In light of the recent controversy surrounding Tiger Woods’ car crash, there are likely more ways in which the President may wish to distinguish himself from the golf star. The article lists ten things that the President could learn from the ultra-successful golf star in improving his performance as president, and vice versa, from the perspective of several prominent writers and players. The magazine cover is a photoshopped...

Below are direct quotes from either from the Democrat Party or from the Communist Party USA. The challenge is to read each comment, categorized by topic, then decide if the quote came from the Democrats or the Communists...

The Ugly Job Loss Chart Keeps Getting Uglier John Carney|Oct. 2, 2009, 5:10 PM | 1,538 |9 Catherine Rampell at Economix has updated this miserable chart, showing job losses in this recession compared to recent ones (expressed as a percentage of peak employment). The dark blue line that just keeps heading down represents current recession. Since the official start of the recession in December 2007, the economy has had a net loss of about 5.2 percent of its nonfarm payroll jobs. The horizontal axis measures the number of months since the recession started. The vertical axis measures the share of...

I have been doing some research analyzing photos and crowd data to try and ascertain the crowd size of the 9/12/09 Tea Party protests (which I blogged on here). It seems the best, most recent reference point is President Obama’s inauguration, which was estimated at 1.8-2.0 million people. If you look at the pictures from last January’s Inauguration it looks at first glance like the Obama crowds dwarfed the Tea Party crowds. The Tea Party Crowds did not extend back the Washington Monument (there were other events on the Mall yesterday). On the flip side, the inauguration is a controlled,...

Obama Reagan debateREAGAN V OBAMAReagan and Obama supporters

This is the result of an OBAMA tax cut estimator on line. I just used the calculator and mailed this result to my three single, voting-aged children: How much will Barack Obama cut your taxes? Despite the facts laid out in the presidential candidates' published tax policies, half of Americans still believe that Barack Obama will raise their taxes. Barack Obama would cut my taxes by: $468.76 John McCain would cut my taxes by: $760.34 Barack Obama would cut my taxes by: $-291.58000000000004 more than John McCain. Except that on line 3, the number is negative, meaning that, clearly, McCain...

Pick your "new" thingBy Leslie J. SacksBarack Obama is perfectly suited in the running for president. He has the ability to both energize and grow the grassroots base, to motivate voters with his superb eloquence and confidence. As a result, he has broken for all time the racial glass ceiling on viable presidential candidates, an accomplishment for which America should be grateful. Based on many current polls, he might very well succeed in his quest for the presidency. On the other hand, Obama, according to a good portion of the country, is not yet experienced enough, and does not...

Can any Freepers help point me in the direction of a chart on the policy differences of McCain and Obama? My middle of the road friends are interested and the ones I have found are blatantly liberal biased (surprise!) If not, send a conservative biased chart so I can at least balance their garbage!

 

This link takes you to a side by side comparison of the qualifications of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. I'd love to be able to post the entire table but I don't know how to format it to post properly, besides the Blog that did all this work deserves the traffic. This is a must read!! http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/aug/30/tale-of-the-tape-sarah-palin-vs-barack-obam/

Palin should be compared with Obama in ads. The Democrat VP should not be mentioned at all. The proper comparison is of persons who could fill the top spot, not the second spot. Palin is far superior to Obama in experience and that is the juxtaposition that should be made. Please forgive the vanity. This is a a thought that I want RNC to see in case they have not thought of it themselves.

A matrix delineating and examining issues on which Senators McCain and Obama differ significantly - an informational resource Introduction Much of this piece was originally published this past April under the title "On McCain." In addition to the matrix mentioned above, that article included an amount of additional commentary which this version does not. But, where that piece was an editorial, this one is intended basically as an informational resource - one largely aimed at those who already support Sen McCain and are seeking to convince wavering conservatives to support him as well. It is therefore naturally inclined towards a...

(IsraelNN.com) United Nations investigator Richard Falk said Tuesday in an interview with the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) that he stood by a statement he made in 2007 comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. He said his “provocative” remark was meant to raise awareness of the suffering of Gaza Arabs. If the remark had been made regarding Sudan’s treatment of Darfur, where hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions forced out of their homes, “I think there would be no reluctance to make that comparison,” Falk said. The reason people are more willing to compare Sudan to Nazi Germany than Israel...

Two New Navy Ships USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76) Seeing it next to the Arizona Memorial really puts its size into perspective... ENORMOUS. BEAUTIFUL! When the Bridge pipes "Man the Rail" there is a lot of rail to man on this monster: shoulder to shoulder, around 4.5 acres. Her displacement is about 100,000 tons with full complement. Capability Top speed exceeds 30 knots, powered by two nuclear reactors that can operate for more than 20 years without refueling. 1. Expected to operate in the fleet for about 50 years. 2. Carries over 80 combat aircraft. 3. Three arresting cables can...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon poured more than $1 billion into bonuses last year to keep soldiers and Marines in the military in the face of an unpopular war and battlefield deployments that are getting longer and more frequent. The incentives — including tax-free payments for those who re-enlist while in the war zone — have jumped nearly sixfold since 2003, the year the war in Iraq began. "It helps a lot of guys out," said Sgt. 1st Class Richard Doran, who re-enlisted late last year during his tour in Iraq. "And I think it does sway some of the decisions...

US commanders admit: we face a Vietnam-style collapse Elite officers in Iraq fear low morale, lack of troops and loss of political will Simon Tisdall Thursday March 1, 2007 The Guardian An elite team of officers advising the US commander, General David Petraeus, in Baghdad has concluded that they have six months to win the war in Iraq - or face a Vietnam-style collapse in political and public support that could force the military into a hasty retreat. The officers - combat veterans who are experts in counter-insurgency - are charged with implementing the "new way forward" strategy announced by...

The Following looks to be a fair head-to-head comparison of equivalent the new MacBook Pro 17" Laptop with a custom configured (to match the stock Apple as closely as possible) Dell Inspirion E1705 17" Laptop. Read the System Shootout FAQ before proceeding! • All images and logos are copyright (c) 2004 the respective companies. Date Configured: 4/24/06 Best of Field(in my opinion) Apple 17" MacBook Pro (stock model) Dell Insprion E1705 (with add-ons) Dimensions: 160 cubic in. 15.4" x 10.4" x 1.0" 280 cubic in. 15.5" x 11.3" x 1.6" Weight: (all bays filled) 6.8 lbs 7.9 lbs. Battery Life:...

Large numbers of Grand Forks-area residents, organizations, nonprofits and business establishments have joined the nationwide effort to help Hurricane Katrina's victims. "We understand what it is like to be evacuated and stranded for an indeterminate amount of time and to suffer at the forces of mother nature," Grand Forks Mayor Michael Brown said. "Having weathered the Flood of 1997 and subsequent recovery we can especially empathize with those on the Gulf Coast who . . .

Conservative groups are promoting a Hillary Rodham Clinton biography that hits bookstores Tuesday as a work so damning it could destroy any possible bid for the presidency in 2008. The 305-page book, "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President," by Edward Klein, portrays the New York senator as a ruthless and ambitious woman who would stop at nothing to protect her husband's presidency and promote a Clinton II administration headed by her. While promotional material from Sentinel books, a conservative imprint launched by the Penguin Group, promises a...

I am dismayed so far by the Republican response to Durbin's statements comparing our treatment of the Gitmo detainees to that given by the Nazi's, Soviets and Pol Pot. I heard Mitch McConnell and some other Senator on the Michael Savage Show debating and questioning Durbin in an entirely too civil manner. It is my opinion that Durbin's statements--and Hillary's and every Democrat who is suggesting that we are mistreating or torturing Gitmo detainees should, in turn, be responded to with nothing less than derision. It seems to me that by failing to do so, the Republicans are treating Durbin's...

The latest hysteria alleging American human rights abuses of suspected terrorists comes from Amnesty International, which apparently hopes to turn even the slightest supposed mistreatment of prisoners into a full-scale Abu Ghraib-type scandal. According to the Washington Times, Amnesty International "last week called on foreign governments 'to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating U.S. officials implicated in the development or implementation of interrogation techniques that constitute torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment' at the U.S. military base known as Gitmo." Furthermore, in a report titled "The State of the World's Human Rights," the organization charged that "the...

CANNES, France, (AP) Without Michael Moore and "Fahrenheit 9/11" at the Cannes Film Festival this time, it was left to George Lucas and "Star Wars" to pique European ire over the state of world relations and the United States' role in it. Lucas' themes of democracy on the skids and a ruler preaching war to preserve the peace predate "Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith" by almost 30 years. Yet viewers Sunday — and Lucas himself — noted similarities between the final chapter of his sci-fi saga and our own troubled times. Cannes audiences made blunt comparisons...

This week a new empirical study claiming to show that public schools do a better job than private schools has made a big media splash. But the study is deeply misleading. The authors make claims their statistical method can’t possibly justify. And if you guessed that the study got off the ground with help from the educational status quo, you’d be right. If there’s one thing education research has shown, it’s that private schools do a better job than public schools. The consensus in favor of this among empirical studies is as strong as on anything in education-policy research. Indeed,...

Please click on the link for the complete story. When the world faced its greatest crisis, he refused to admit defeat. He refused to accept his handicap. He refused to reveal everything, his hidden diplomacy, his plans to take America to war. FDR became American’s shining light by keeping us in the dark. FDR, a presidency revealed, Sunday April 17th 9, 8 central on the History Channel. ( Audio Transcript. )

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ARMINIUS: (By Dr. Vic Reasoner) John Wesley observed that "to say, 'this man is an Arminian,' has the same effect on many hearers, as to say, 'This is a mad dog.'"(1)Arminianism has been called "the last and greatest monster of the man of sin, the elixir of Anti-Christianism; the mystery of the mystery of iniquity, the spawn of Popery, and the varnished offspring of the old Pelagians." (2)Robert C. Harbach wrote, "Arminianism is that rejected error which has become the most insidiously devised heresy ever to lay claim to biblical support." Harbach complained that Calvinists are the most hated people...

I have heard much discussion as of late regarding Defense and Education spending as percentages of the Federal budget. Many on the Right have argued that defense spending is a fraction of the Federal expenditures on Education. But, as I look at the issue, just in terms of raw numbers, this argument does not make enough sense to me to even attempt its use. Could someone help me understand just this argument as it breaks down?... or point me to a thread or article that engages this discussion? On the surface, it seems to me to be a bogus argument...

[ This is a re-post of an essay written several months ago, and re-posted now, with restored structure. It is reposted due to several excellent suggestions that only with the structure restored, could it be effective. For those suggestions, I thank the suggestors. Perhaps those who struggled with the sentence structure the first time can attest to whether the effort was worth it. ] The reasoning was the same. Rather than fight the battle on the main streets of our coastal cities, the President, after consulting with his advisors, reasoned that it just possibly might be a good idea to...

Today's Gospel in the Traditional Mass gives one of the strongest teachings of Jesus, "By your fruits you shall know them." There are those who claimed the Novus Ordo was required for the faithful to better "understand and participate" in the liturgy. (As if all those before the New Mass were ignorant dolts who slept during Mass!) They will go into long defenses of the Novus Ordo to attempt to avoid the painfully obvious, the fruits of the Novus Ordo are not positive. As even Cardinal Ratzinger has had to lament, in many of today's churches, since there is no...

Honey-talking Bill lacks George's guts and honour Sunday June 27th 2004 MOST of the crazies who called for George Bush's arrest this week believe we were safer when Bill Clinton was bedding interns in the Oval Office. These political adolescents think the ex-president possessed qualities of leadership that are lost on his simple-minded successor. But those who seriously study the record will know it is actually George Bush who fits the description of a truly great leader. Glancing through the ego-soaked pages of Clinton's new memoir - My Life, you would never guess that he abandoned reason and scruple...

 May 27, 2004 Chimps are not like humans Whole-chromosome comparison reveals much greater genetic differences than expected | By Cathy Holding The vigorous debate on how different chimpanzees are from humans is fuelled by new data in this week's Nature, as the International Chimpanzee Chromosome 22 Consortium reports that 83% of chimpanzee chromosome 22 proteins are different from their human counterparts.The difference is "much more complicated that we initially imagined or speculated," Yoshiyuki Sakaki, who headed the consortium, told The Scientist. "Our group completed the human chromosome 21 sequence about 3 years ago," Sakaki, director of the RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center,...

There could be no greater insult to David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister and defense minister, and Menachem Begin, its sixth prime minister, than comparing them with the leaders of the Palestinian terrorist gangs. Yet it is done again and again by Jews who maintain that "Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) hasn't attacked the Altalena of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the other terrorist organizations." Ben-Gurion was never an Abu Mazen, and certainly not a Yasser Arafat; nor was Menachem Begin ever a version of Ahmed Yassin or Abdel Aziz Rantisi. Yet this hasn't deterred those Jewish forgers of history, the old...

[Q NOTE: THIS AWESOME SECTION SETS THE STAGE FOR CONTRASTING THE WAR AND PEACE HANUKAH MATRIX'S CLUSTERS WITH AUTHENTIC AND STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT BIBLICAL CODES. I have difficulty understanding in a rational way (except for the psychological/emotional/spiritual perverseness of man)--I have difficulty understanding how any fair-minded person could seriously & fairly consider even this section alone and still assert that any other book yields the same quality codes as The Bible--IT JUST 'AIN'T' SO!!!] COMPARING CLUSTERS The Skeptics' Arguments Don't Hold a Hanukah Candle to Extensive Evidence of the Reality of Bible Codes Ever since the Bible codes were introduced, skeptics...

[Q NOTE: THIS SECTION ON CALCULATED ODDS is one of the most exciting, to me. I believe the facts presented in this section are very incredible, very AWESOME.] The Scrabble Factor The seven Hanukah ELSs appear within a 1,123 letter long section of text, which is somewhat smaller than the 1,584 letter long section that is crossed by all of the Isaiah 53 ELSs that are at least as significant as the Hanukah finds. So the two source texts are fairly comparable in size. In reality most of the Isaiah 53 cluster is concentrated in the last half of the...

As has been their tradition for decades now, neocons who are in favor of waging total war against somebody (this time it’s Iraq) have been invoking the sainted Lincoln ("Father Abraham," as the war enthusiasts at the Claremont Institute call him) as their role model. After all, there must be some kind of ideological cover for mass murder (as all wars are), and that is the role of the Lincoln Myth.As Joseph Stromberg recently noted ("Bring on the Honors List!", LRC, Aug. 28), George Will has written in the Washington Post that President Bush should look to Lincoln’s war tactics...