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Here’s President Barack Obama in his younger years, hair grown out, stunna shades on (see “stunna shades” here). Write your captions in the comments section below. We’ll post the winner and some runners-up tomorrow. Caption that photo!

My fellow Freepers: PLEASE take a moment of your time to give your vote to my friend, Laura, at the link below. http://www.nmeda.com/mobility-awareness-month/heroes/michigan/clinton-twp/492/laura-goodman Enter the promo code 889 or 890 to multiply your vote by 5! Laura is wheelchair-bound and could never afford the reliable transportation she really needs. So she's in the running to WIN one; a fully-equipped handicap-ready van, and all she needs is VOTES! Please drop by now and take a moment. There's no tedious registrations to deal with. If you want to help MORE, you can vote every day while the contest runs! Please consider stopping...

The mittens are off! Verbal fists are flying in what is becoming tourism marketing fight of this century! Two states — boundaries formed millennia ago by natural forces and almost two centuries ago by politics — look a lot like the human hand in a mitten. Because of that, Wisconsin and Michigan were locked in mostly media-created hand-to-hand combat for the better part of a month over which looks more like the body part. The origins are pretty simple. Over the past year, the Wisconsin Department of Tourism has been using a campaign that stages various objects to look like...

ORANGE — For Orange resident Leroy Faulks Sr., it was all real — the stunned stare, the tears and the $1 million check presented to him today from Publishers Clearing House. And yet, it was almost surreal. "I really can’t believe that this is happening to me," said Faulks, 69, while holding the over-sized check bearing his name. "I can put this in the bank immediately?" The Prize Patrol crew surprised Faulks at the doorstep of his home with what PCH officials said is the largest sweepstakes prize ever awarded in New Jersey: $1 million plus $5,000 a week —...

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2011 Results

The Lincoln Journal Star Newspaper was running a contest for an ultimate wedding. It was open for couples to put their names in and write an essay on why they deserved the prize, valued at $20,000.My daughter and her husband's dear friends entered this contest. She has been in a wheel chair since she was like 16 from a car accident. He is serving his country in Afganistan.She had a dream of becoming a teacher and he is fullfilling that dream. He is supporting both of them while she goes back to school full time.So, on to the contest....several dozen...

Did anyone else on FR enter his town to try to win the truckload of Rush's new product "Twoifbytea"?? He's been talking about it for over a week on the radio. The contest ended Wednesday the 29th at 6 PM, and had to be done on the online form at the twoifbytea website. Entrant had to make a case in about 3 paragraphs why their town would be a deserving recipient of the tea, which would be delivered by truck to their 4th of July celebration. THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED tomorrow on his show, my guess is toward or...

Please help me help a friend. He has a special needs son. IF YOU HAVE A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT you can help. Friends, please take just a second and vote for our friends, the Daleys. They need the prize earnings to help pay for expensive therapy for their special needs son. Click on the link to vote every 24 hours until midnight Mothers Day: Her name is Carol Daley http://apps.facebook.com/mostdeservingmom/contests/99987/voteable_entries/20455596?ogn=facebook&order=recency . Contest safe-done by Destin, FL Convention/Visitors Bureau. Thanks! Thanks so much for all of your support in this contest! Sorry to keep bugging you, but we really need to win...

The GOP is having a presidential candidate debate tomorrow tonight in South Carolina. Fox News Channel, 9 PM EDT. Your challenge is to listen to the questions and answers and decide what the best answer YOU would come up with. In the past, TV tells us who wins, and they've rigged the set-up. IOW, they NAIL our minds with this set up time and again. I have myself come up with better answers, some of which were quite funny while being practical. It is my thinking that the American public is far smarter than any currently serving politician or well-known...

Parliamentary elections in Egypt are scheduled for September; Muslim Brotherhood regraded as the most organized political force in Egypt in the post-Mubarak era. The Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday it will contest up to half the parliamentary seats in elections scheduled for September. But the group said it will not field a candidate for the position of president in an election due to held after the parliamentary vote.

My nephew and his fiance have entered a contest with Crate & Barrel to try to win the Ultimate Wedding. They are a wonderful young couple and could really use Freepers help. Would you please click on the link and vote for them? http://www.ultimateweddingcontest.com/entry/161688 Thanks very much!

For the fourth year in a row, Ford Customer Service Division brands Motorcraft, Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center and FordParts.com will give away one of Ford’s hottest vehicles to one lucky winner. This year’s contest kicks off March 10, 2011. The Grand Prize package includes a 2012 Ford Mustang GT (maximum MSRP $29,995) with $5,000 in Ford Racing Performance Parts and Ford Custom Accessories. Fans age 18 years and older are invited to enter at the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Racing Experience at select NHRA Full Throttle Series events, online at Mustang 5.0 Fever and Quicklane, or by texting FORDNHRA to...

. . . . . Friday night -- tonight -- we are getting crazy. It's the FIRST ever contest competition Awards Ceremony on The Andrea Shea King Show.  (and depending... hmmm, it could be our last.) Big Fur Hat at our favorite hangout has appointed "moi" the arbiter of bad....er, good taste in an ADULTS ONLY ribald competition titled: "Assign a porn industry name to a politician or celebrity!" More than 500 entries have been submitted.   Ooh la la!  Am I up to the task?  Well... in the words of a certain maligned Alaskan, "You betcha!". And with the able...

***Update: Now $125 thanks to Joan of Argghh! I've been complaining for some time now that the label Republican In Name Only, and its acronym, RINO, are ineffectual to say the least. My topmost reason is that a dichotomy exists in the word republican. Conservatives think of republicans as representing the people who elected them, with an eye fixed on protecting and preserving the American constitution with its limits on government and its recognition of personal rights. Progressives think of republicans as elitist and doing what they think is right no matter what the common folk think, and "The...

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Holds Prison-Wide Christmas Caroling Contestby Alex Alvarez | 3:11 pm, December 21st, 2010 Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is famous, to put it somewhat euphemistically, for thinking outside the pen when it comes to punishing his state’s criminals. Now the man who made headlines for making inmates don pink underwear is in the news yet again, this time for organizing a caroling contest among inmates, with the most angelic rendition of “All I Want for Christmas is You” winning a festive Christmas dinner. Arpaio has drawn criticism — not to mention a few lawsuits — for another Christmas...

Richard Gilbert is a Toronto-based consultant who focuses on energy and transportation. His latest book is Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil, written with Anthony Perl. My last post suggested that two types of transportation fuel could replace oil products. One kind – including natural gas and biofuels – could be used in versions of the internal combustion engines (ICEs) that today provide propulsion for almost all road vehicles. The other alternative fuel – electricity – would require a switch to electric motors (EMs) for propulsion. I concluded that electricity is the best alternative, especially where there is...

A MUSICIAN who lost both arms in a childhood accident and plays the piano with his toes has won China's Got Talent, performing his version of James Blunt's wistful love song You're Beautiful to a packed audience at the Shanghai Stadium. All three judges on the show on Sunday praised Liu Wei, 23, for his determination, urging him to keep pursuing his dreams, and the Beijing native said he would try, quipping: "At least I have a pair of perfect legs." For winning the Chinese version of the show, he will be invited to play as a guest performer with...

Time for another contest! This one is based on the old word search standard, but, there are two hurdles! First, you have to find the appropriate words. And secondly, you have to show Bruce where the words lie in the puzzle. Let’s start with the puzzle itself…

Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas discusses her eating contest exploits

A HUNDRED years ago it was perhaps already possible to discern the rising powers whose interaction and competition would shape the 20th century. The sun that shone on the British empire had passed midday. Vigorous new forces were flexing their muscles on the global stage, notably America, Japan and Germany. Their emergence brought undreamed-of prosperity; but also carnage on a scale hitherto unimaginable. Now digest the main historical event of this week: China has officially become the world’s second-biggest economy, overtaking Japan. In the West this has prompted concerns about China overtaking the United States sooner than previously thought. But...

Ramygala, a Lithuanian village 150 kilometers from the capital Vilnius, hosted a weird beauty contest to crown the most beautiful goat. On July 5th, the inhabitants of Ramygala gathered on the outskirts of the village to watch the traditional goat beauty contest held to commemorate the 640th anniversary of the village, which is this year’s capital of Lithuanian culture. The goat has been the symbol of Ramygala ever since medieval times, and it’s still valued by the locals. A total of 13 goats entered the beauty contest, but only one of them claimed the title of “most beautiful goat in...

Morgan County WV is having a flag contest and there were 3 finalists out of 24 submitted designs. My design is Flag 1 in the contest. I am urging people to vote for it at http://www.morgancountywv.gov/gov/flagpoll.html# Problems with the other flags are: Flag 3: It shows Morgan for whom the county was named for. I don't think he ever lived in the county though and portraits of people are inappropriate for flags. Flag 2: It doesn't have the standard 3 by 5 dimension, but rather has a 3.9 by 5 dimension, it has too many colors, too much small print,...

Anticipating a furor of voter criticism over the July Fourth recess, Democratic lawmakers from the border region shot back at the White House last week, challenging the president’s speech on immigration in which he said that the southern border is secure. Arizona Democratic Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick, Harry Mitchell and Gabrielle Giffords joined a growing Republican chorus in denouncing President Barack Obama for not pushing for more specific action in his Thursday speech on the nation’s immigration and border security issues.

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I have a friend who is a fellow conservative in a world of liberals and asked me to help them out. Her 9-year old Child has designed a re-usable bag for the Kroger Company, the winner will have their design be on all the bags nationwide at King Soopers, Smiths, Krogers, etc.. The design goes with the phrase "HE's got the whole world in his hands" which is a Christian message among all the liberal and far-left wing messages on the other bags. If fellow freepers can help us out by voting daily I would appreciate it! The link is:...

President Obama has chosen Michigan's Kalamazoo Central High School as the winner of his first annual "Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge." To enter, students had to submit a video and essay on how their school was helping prepare students to meet the president's goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020. The prize: President Obama will deliver the commencement address at their graduation ceremony.

Shock jock Howard Stern lines up lovers of Tiger Woods for $100,000 beauty contestChris Ayres, Los Angeles February 24, 2010 As if Tiger Woods’s apology last week for his serial philandering wasn’t enough of a public humiliation, several of his former mistresses have agreed to take part in a beauty pageant in which they will compete for a $100,000 (£65,000) prize. The Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant, organised by the US shock jock Howard Stern, will be held on March 10. So far, only four of the golfer’s former mistresses — out of the 13 identified in the press —...

TSA Logo Contest Over at "Ask the Pilot," Patrick Smith has a great idea: Calling all artists: One thing TSA needs, I think, is a better logo and a snappy motto. Perhaps there's a graphic designer out there who can help with a new rendition of the agency's circular eagle-and-flag motif. I'm imagining a revised eagle, its talons clutching a box cutter and a toothpaste tube. It says "Transportation Security Administration" around the top. Below are the three simple words of the TSA mission statement: "Tedium, Weakness, Farce."Let's do it. I'm announcing the TSA Logo Contest. Rules are simple: create...

The publishers of Glenn Beck's book, The Christmas Sweater: (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing) has graciously given Flopping Aces five books to give away to some lucky readers....so we're having a caption contest. The five best caption's for the below picture wins a copy. [IMAGE AT SITE] Free Republic readers, please leave captions in blog comments...not in this thread. (Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...

It's time again for us to show our Christmas spirit and give away some gifts to one of our readers. This year is an especially great year for the All American Christmas. This year's prize package includes: A 90 minute DVD titled "Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny," hosted by Newt and Callista Gingrich S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery's "Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years" Mark Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto" Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue: An American Life" An autographed copy of "Obama - Why Black America Should Have Doubts" An autographed copy of Michelle Malkin's "Culture...

You have spoken. The nominations are in for our Best Restaurant Contest! We have your picks and now it's time for you to crown the winners in each category.

A Sacramento Superior Court jury today awarded the survivors of Jennifer Lea Strange $16,577,118 as a result of her death nearly three years ago in a water-drinking contest conducted by a local radio station. In making the award, the seven-man, five-woman panel voted unanimously to find that Entercom Sacramento LLC, the local subsidiary of Entercom Communications Corp. of Philadelphia was negligent in putting on the contest that ultimately resulted in Strange's death.......Strange, 28, died Jan. 12, 2007, after participating in what KDND "The End" 107.9 promoted as its "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest that promised the popular Nintendo...

<p>A Sacramento County jury has awarded $16.5 million to the family of a 28-year-old woman who died after participating in a radio station's water-drinking contest.</p> <p>Jennifer Strange, a mother of three, died of acute water intoxication in January 2007 after the challenge to see which contestant could drink the most water without using the restroom. A Nintendo Wii video game was the prize for winning the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest.</p>

Overall Winner "The Storybook Wolf" This nighttime shot of a wolf leaping into a farm in northern Spain has been named overall winner of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 competition. The picture, by Spanish photographer Josi Luis Rodrmguez, was selected from more than 43,000 entries. Iberian wolves--a subspecies of the gray wolf--are extremely wary of humans after centuries of persecution. Rodrmguez captured the photograph using motion sensors and an infrared barrier to operate the camera. "This wolf jumping over the farmer's enclosure with the supposed intent of killing his livestock speaks for itself--thousands of years of...

When Dylan Lynch captures a winning shot, it usually involves a hockey game, not a yawning cat. But it was the photo of his tired, three-year-old tabby, Ben, that won him top spot in our Kitty City photo contest. Lynch, a photographer and editor for the Edmonton Oilers and Oil Kings, likes to try out his new equipment on his three feline roommates. “I don’t always have a hockey game going on at my house, so I’ve got to test them on something,” he jokes.

Women's rights groups have slammed a Miss Homeless contest in Belgium that ended when a 58-year-old woman won the first prize of a rent free flat for a year. Miss Homeless finalists /Europics Therese Van Belle, 58, beat nine other finalists in the contest who will now all go back on the streets. Organiser Aline Duportail said the competition was meant to draw attention to the plight of the homeless. But woman's rights activist Jacqueline Aubenas said: "I am outraged. These girls that turned into puppets parodying their own life is an absolute pathetic." The contest was judged over...

Announcing a new contest to come up with 10 verses for our own Obama Song, not to be sung by children, but to be clean enough for children. The verses can be serious or funny, but they should reference Obama, his Administration, Policies or Actions. Suggested topics: Health Care, Gun Control, Czars, Background, Foreign Policy, Spending, ACORN... This is the format for the verses: Barack Hussein Obama (your verse) Hmm Hmm Hmm Go here to enter: http://barackhusseinobamahmmhmmhmm.blogspot.com/ Spread it around and join in, let’s keep up the dialog.

A boy with no official nationality who lives in Thailand captured third place in a Japanese paper aeroplane contest on Sunday after his tearful pleas to be allowed to attend prompted authorities to grant him a rare temporary passport for the event. Mong Thongdee prepares to let fly during the individual indoor flight competition Mong Thongdee, 12, won a national paper aeroplane championship in Thailand in August 2008 after he threw a plane that flew for 12 seconds, and was later chosen to attend the Japanese contest in Chiba, near Tokyo. But Mong, who lives in Chiang Mai in northern...

Video game developer John Carmack, better known for his work on Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein, has qualified for a million dollar prize from NASA. America's space agency challenged the nation's brightest minds to come up with a design contest known as the Lunar Lander Challenge. Carmack's team, known as Armadillo Aerospace, won $350,000 after taking first prize last year in NASA's Level 1 competition. Now they are aiming for Level 2 and the million dollar prize. As MSNBC.com describes it: "The alcohol-fueled, pressure-tank-equipped rocket has to hang in the air for a minimum of 3 minutes during each leg of...

A new contest at ConservativeHQ.com asks visitors for their ideas for slogans to go along with this Obamacare poster. The winner of the contest will receive a copy of the poster with their slogan, signed by ConservativeHQ.com Chairman and conservative fundraising legend Richard A. Viguerie. To enter the contest, simply visit http://www.conservativehq.com/contest.

CONTEST: Obamacare, "Win one for Teddy; KILL Grandma and Grandpa NOW!" Lets take this issue away from the left, run with it and turn this back on them by using this slogan against them. FR is full of talented graphics designers. I propose a CONTEST for creative people here on FR need to create some HIGH RESOLUTION graphic posters and bumper stickers with the above slogan done with nifty graphics like our "Sore Loserman" campaign with the following slogan: Obamacare, "Win one for Teddy; KILL Grandma and Grandpa NOW!" Please submit your entries on this tread so that freepers can...

Today, as the Administration holds a day-long summit on H1N1, we're excited to announce that HHS is launching a new PSA campaign contest to encourage more Americans to get involved in the nation's flu preparedness efforts by making a 15, 30 or 60 second video Public Service Announcement (PSA). The goal of the contest is to tap into the nation's creativity to help educate Americans about how to plan for and prevent the spread of the flu and the H1N1 virus.   The videos can be funny, cute, dramatic, but most of all, they should help make a positive impact....

HELSINKI (AFP) — Finland put an end to Estonia's 11-year reign and took gold and bronze on Saturday at the annual Wife-Carrying World Championships held in Sonkajaervi, central Finland, organisers said. Taisto Miettinen raced through a 250-metre (273-yard) course with two hurdles and a pool in 62 seconds, carrying Kristiina Haapanen on his back. The winners beat Estonia's Alar Voogla and Kristi Viltrop by 0.1 seconds. Miettinen has been attending the competition for a decade now and said he was pleased to finally win. "A couple of times I have lost by 0.1 seconds and I have stumbled. Our win...

WASHINGTON, June 17, 2009 – As it gears up for its 7th Annual Children’s Freedom Art Contest, a North Carolina-based troop-support group is looking for patriotic drawings or paintings that signify the unyielding spirit of America after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “We initially started as a group that put up exhibits of patriotic photos sent to us,” said Eileen A. Schwartz, founder of Flags Across the Nation. “About a year after the 9/11 attacks, we decided to launch a Freedom Art Contest for children. Throughout the year, we still do art-related exhibits and activities honoring our flag...

WORLD WIDE CELEBRATIONOF THE HALYARD MISSION HEROES!THE FORGOTTEN 500 BOOK REPORT CONTEST!Apart from the generous financial rewards kindly donated by various individuals as the prizes for the top three best book reports, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd place and the “Runner Up” reports that finish in the “Top Five” will be posted on my three websites on the internet dedicated to recognizing and celebrating Serbian heroes, among them General Draza Mihailovich, who was ultimately responsible for the success of the Halyard Mission Rescue Operation and the saving of the American airmen whose story shines in The Forgotten 500. The top five...

in the spirit of the Original Obama teleprompter photoshop thread, I would like to start a new contest, Original Teleprompter Photoshop threadFor this contest please photoshop Air Force One into your favorite pics to create the perfect Obama Air Force One Photo Op below is my entry

WASHINGTON, April 6 /Christian Newswire/ -- The deadline for enrolling in the 2009 National Bible Bee Competition is April 30, 2009. The Bible Bee Headquarters is urging families interested in participating in the National Bible Bee to contact the nearest Local Bible Bee and sign up now! To locate a Bible Bee in your community, you can visit the National Bible Bee website at www.biblebee.org and click the U.S. Google Map. Simply zoom in and click one of the green markers in your area for contact information! The Shelby Kennedy Foundation is excited to introduce this first-of-its-kind annual National Bible...

I think we need to have a contest and design our next automobile.If GM is now Government Motors, and we the people are the employers of the governmant, we should have some input on how to design a car.

A popular Detroit radio station has held a unique Valentine’s Day contest: a free divorce to the most deserving dysfunctional couple. On at least one previous occasion the local Detroit news media publicized an objectionable radio stunt that was subsequently stopped due to public outrage. In this case, however, the news media is AWOL. Every year the media covers the Hallmark holiday we call Valentine’s Day with shallow, mushy stories about marriage proposals, make-your-own-valentine treats and the area’s most romantic restaurants. But this year, when 95.5 WKQI, a highly rated station in the market, had a very different, more cynical...