http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cool/ en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:35:55 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416446/posts Nicolas Sarkozy, the most pro-American president of France for half a century, has gone cold on Barack Obama, the most popular American leader in France in generations. A year ago Mr Sarkozy was engaged in a tussle among European leaders anxious to be the first to secure a meeting with the freshly elected Mr Obama. Mr Sarkozy described Mr Obama as “my friend” after meeting him just once as a senator. ft.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416446/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:35:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404009/posts Finally some Europeans are angry with Obama—the very ones who are awarding him his Nobel. Katarina Andersson on the president's decision to decline lunch with King Harald and skip his own Nobel exhibit. A day before President Obama receives his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the president’s treatment of his Norwegian hosts has become hot news across Scandinavia. News outlets across the region are calling Obama arrogant for slashing some of the prize winners’ traditional duties from his schedule. “Everybody wants to visit the Peace Center except Obama,” sniped the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, amid reports the president would snub his... The Daily Beast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404009/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 21:18:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2386900/posts Many of you from coast-to-coast experienced a wet and cool October and now the official numbers are in. Since 1895, October 2009 was the 3rd coolest October, nationally. Doppler Dale's Weather Posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2386900/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:15:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2348971/posts Video shows a cool dance routine with some amazing skills. kinda long but worth it. click for enjoyment. Wimp.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2348971/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:21:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2347876/posts Link only here. D J Allyn website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2347876/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:21:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2347227/posts 1st Successful Amateur Hi-Def Video from The Edge of Space.Tomoya came to Canada from Japan to have us send his HD camera to the edge of spaceand has another video on his web page. The BEAR 3 & 4 balloon flights were featured on the Discovery Channel, Daily Planet TV show on Sept 18/09which can be viewed online at the Discovery Channel Web SiteHelp support future flights by making a Donation and receive a DVD in appreciation with 2-1/2 hrs. of the best of the 4 hr. 22 min. HD Video. The balloon and camera were launched at 7:44 AM, the... BEAR Homepage/YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2347227/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:27:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2325937/posts Last weekend a nice cool shot sank southward out of Canada and encompassed much of the eastern half of the nation. Looks like another and likely stronger surge of early autumn air will sink through the Eastern U.S. through much of the next 7-days. Doppler Dale's Weather Poasts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2325937/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:09:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2310999/posts One of the favorite places for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and wife Ginni to grab some sleep is in a Wal-Mart parking lot, Mrs. Thomas told National Public Radio on Wednesday. In fact, the Washington power couple spends each summer touring the United States in a mobile home, she said. The justice and his wife have cruised through 27 states since buying their used recreation vehicle in 1999. FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2310999/posts#comment Sat, 8 Aug 2009 00:05:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2296924/posts So just how rare is this cool weather during this time of July in the South? Find out here Doppler Dale's Weather Posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2296924/posts#comment Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:18:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2294455/posts A chilly airmass for the month of July is sinking south out of Canada and it will encompass much of the nation along and east of the Mississippi River from the Canadian border to the Deep South through this weekend. Doppler Dale's Weather Posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2294455/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:31:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283441/posts MOSCOW (Reuters) - Adoring fans have flocked to see him on visits around the world, but Barack Obama should expect a far cooler reception in Russia next week. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283441/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:24:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248296/posts Caffeine addicts face higher prices for their daily fix as the wholesale cost of both coffee and sugar rise sharply because of poor crops and robust demand. Financial Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248296/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 03:00:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2244661/posts Video. Words are useless. "Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot and Trade Show" pert much says it all. God Bless America. Eat your heart out France. http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/exclusives/64615/OFASTS-Gun-Apocalypse.html Attack of the Show http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2244661/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 18:00:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2234532/posts Ever wonder what happens to airplanes after they are retired? The scrapyard is the most common place. If it is in good working order, perhaps sold over seas or to a private buyer. But a select few get transformed into personal residences, hotels, hostels, and cafes. For instance the boat-plane to the left. For some other interesting examples of transformed airplanes, click here. Links and photos on site http://nowthatsnifty.blogspot.com/2009/04/recycled-airplanes.html Now That's Nifty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2234532/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:13:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2233689/posts The vehicles are made by UNICAT, a company based in Europe that now also has an American branch. The particular model shown in the photographs is designated as the "EX63-HDM / MAN TGA 6x6". The series of photographs included in the email can be viewed on the UNICAT website, along with many other photographs. This model has a roof that lowers snugly over the windows when travelling thus explaining the apparent mystery of the disappearing windows. Photos on site Now That's Nifty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2233689/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:47:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218510/posts PORTLAND, Ore. — Kroger supermarkets is recalling 10-ounce packages of pistachios sold in Texas and 30 other states over fears of possible salmonella contamination. chron http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218510/posts#comment Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:21:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2188614/posts On a lighter note Eagles nesting on Camera Caltrans http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2188614/posts#comment Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:07:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175341/posts A homeless man found dead in the cold earlier this week in Michigan had been denied a place to stay in local homeless shelters because he was a sex offender, social workers said. The body of Thomas Pauli, 52, was found in the snow in an auto body salvage shop in Grand Rapids Monday. The results of an autopsy were not yet available. Homeless service staffers who have worked with Pauli said he has been denied a spot at local shelters because of a state law that bars sex offenders from staying within 1,000 feet of a school. It was... abcnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175341/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:05:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2177589/posts (video) Can you imagine how much more fun camping would be with a flashlight like this? NotoriouslyConservative.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2177589/posts#comment Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:43:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2170881/posts How dazzling is President Obama? So dazzling that he didn’t merely give a dazzling inaugural speech. Any old timeserving hack could do that. Instead, he had the sheer genius to give a flat dull speech full of the usual shopworn boilerplate. Brilliant! At a stroke, he not only gently lowered the expectations of those millions of Americans and billions around the world for whom his triumphant ascendancy is the only thing that gives their drab little lives any meaning, but also emphasized continuity by placing his unprecedented incandescent megastar cool squarely within the tradition of squaresville yawneroo white middle-aged plonking... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2170881/posts#comment Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:57:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154472/posts Industry experts and businesspeople in China say that the industrial chemical has been routinely added to fish and animal feed to artificially boost protein readings. Reporting from Los Angeles and Shanghai--Melamine in Chinese-produced milk powder has sickened hundreds of thousands of children and added to a growing list of made-in-China foods banned across the globe.Now, some scientists and consumer advocates are raising concerns that fish from China may also be contaminated with the industrial chemical. China is the world's largest producer of farm-raised seafood, exporting billions of dollars worth of shrimp, catfish, tilapia, salmon and other fish.The U.S. imported about... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154472/posts#comment Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:07:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154536/posts Mexico suspends meat imports from plants in 14 states, apparently in response to labeling law Mexico suspended meat imports from 30 processing plants in 14 states, including some of the nation's largest, on Wednesday and Friday, according to a list posted on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Web site The action pushed down beef and pork futures in trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Friday. Among the plants listed on the site are the Smithfield Packing Inc. plant in Tarheel, N.C., the world's largest pork slaughterhouse. Another Smithfield plant in Plant City, Fla., that processes pork, beef and poultry is... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154536/posts#comment Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:50:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2150388/posts COOL: Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2150388/posts#comment Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:04:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144199/posts Global Air Traffic Simulation A simulation created by a Swiss School of Engineering shows global air traffic over a 24 hour period. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBwjQsOEeg you tube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144199/posts#comment Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:14:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2136007/posts BANGKOK (Reuters) – A maverick Thai general who has threatened to bomb anti-government protesters and drop snakes on them from helicopters has been reassigned as an aerobics teacher, the Bangkok Post said on Friday. Major-general Khattiya Sawasdipol, a Rambo-esque anti-communist fighter more commonly known as Seh Daeng, reacted with disappointment to his new role as a military instructor promoting public fitness at marketplaces. "It is ridiculous to send me, a warrior, to dance at markets," he said, before launching an attack on his boss, army chief Anupong Paochinda. "The army chief wants me to be a presenter leading aerobics dancers.... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2136007/posts#comment Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:43:32 GMT