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I'm getting closer and closer to believing that we are now just waiting for God to end the world. More and more I find myself HOPING that God will come soon to end all of this. Having two sons makes it even harder because how could I want the end of the world when I have two beautiful sons who I want to watch grow? How can I have two sons grow in this society is also an alarming cause for scare. Our government is making decisions on when it's okay to kill a baby, our president is giving praise...

Conservatives are having a laugh after it surfaced that the official presidential biographies on the White House website have been updated to inject President Obama into history. But kidding aside, this is a truly disgraceful behavior. In the most egregious example, noted by the Heritage Foundation's Rory Cooper, the official Ronald Reagan biography is appended with the note: "In a June 28, 1985 speech Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffet Rule." (Over at Commentary,...

Watching the election year primaries unfold, it is clear disgust surrounds the individual in the White House and the top two challengers for the office of President of the United States. The man in the White House characterized his last three years with deception, poor stewardship, and immoral decision making. One of his challengers has a past characterized by philandering and broken trust while the other has demonstrated immoral choices involving support of homosexuality, abortion, and stem cell research. This speaks completely to their moral fiber; it does not address their failures of ideology or misdirected spirituality. Presently and historically,...

New O'Keefe Videos ComingFriday, July 15, 2011Robert Wenzel Roger Stone thumbs: Videos Coming- James O'Keefe [think ACORN videos] will Rock the world again shortly

I never expected to write this letter, but my Mom e-mailed me to get information about my career for a writeup on Veterans Day, and as this is the first such holiday in 22 years when I will not be on active duty, I felt compelled to let you know why I decided to quit. Quit is a strong word, I know. Everyone I’ve talked to has repeated that I’ve had a marvelous career and that I’ve retired with honor. Maybe that’s true on paper; I guess that it’s reflected by the record. But that’s not how I feel. I...

‘UnF–kTheGulf.com’ Ad Mixes Children and Profanity to Push Left Message

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe program, Maxine Waters claimed that the Tea Partiers were vulgar and out of control. She would know a thing or two about vulgar rallies… [VIDEO on site] WARNING: Adult language! I’ve been to every Atlanta-area Tea Party event since the first one back in February of 2009. I have yet to hear chants like the one expressed in this video. I also haven’t seen too many Barack Obama masks, blindfolded or otherwise. But she is right about conservatives waving flags, laughing, and having a great time. I’ve enjoyed every single event I’ve attended. There’s something cathartic...

Even in the midst of economic and political melt down, Sen. Evan Bayh was still between 10 and 20 points ahead of his potential Republican challengers. Why did the Indiana Democrat announce he will not run for re-election? "Even pols are sick of Washington," blared the Politico.com headline. Bayh's friend and ex-chief of staff, former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, told the press, "Those frustrations have increasingly worn on him, and I think his willingness to tolerate the frustrations has decreased over time." Evan Bayh is tired of being the middle patch of ground in a culture war that never seems...

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Viewers React With Sympathy, Disgust For Letterman By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer – Fri Oct 2 NEW YORK – Will David Letterman's very public revelation of a new, very human flaw bring him closer to viewers, or will it cloud him in cliche showbiz debauchery? That was the question many were debating Friday, the day after the CBS "Late Show" host revealed to his audience that he had sexual relationships with female employees and had been the victim of an extortion attempt to keep that information private. Letterman unraveled the sordid story with humor, honesty and self-effacement. He may...

This is a letter that I wrote to the Obama campaign. I am sure that I will not get a response but maybe someone will read it and maybe that one person will change their mind. I am probably one of a few republicans still left in New York and I am disgusted by what I heard from you this evening. First, about your plan to provide low cost loans to small businesses so that they can remain open and hire more employees. Is that so that when they finally have their head above water, you can hit them with...

September 19th, 2008 Singers for Obama release “Yes We Can” album Posted by: Jill Serjeant You’ve heard them at the Obama campaign rallies and speeches for months, andstevie.jpg now all those Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer and Los Lonely Boys songs that warm up the Democratic Party crowds have been put together on one album. Billed as the first-ever presidential campaign compilation, the 18-song disc “Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement” also includes excerpts from speeches given by Barack Obama and goes on sale exclusively on the campaign’s official Web site on Friday. All proceeds from digital...

A reader emailed this link today, and although I’m very sure I would have serious disagreements with this Muslim blogger on many issues, I have to give a big LGF thumbs-up to the obviously sincere disgust he shows toward the Palestinians’ barbaric celebrations of the mass murder in Jerusalem—and toward the radical front groups CAIR and MAS: RETURN TO SENDER! STAMP THIS specious variety of “Islam” which celebrates the slaughter of children Return to Sender. We have no need for it here in the United States and they can stop trying to feed it to us. What do CAIR and...

Gabriel Range is a documentary filmmaker, of whom few had heard until this week. His 2003 television production, The Day Britain Stopped, was a pioneering essay in the “fake documentary”, in which imaginary future events are synthesized in fine detail. He has now achieved fame, even before anyone has seen his new essay in that genre, Death of a President. It will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Sept. 10th, and then show on the British TV channel, More4. The fame, or more properly, infamy, is for his audacity in making a film about the assassination of a U.S. President...

SAS soldier quits Army in disgust at 'illegal' American tactics in Iraq By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 12/03/2006) An SAS soldier has refused to fight in Iraq and has left the Army over the "illegal" tactics of United States troops and the policies of coalition forces. After three months in Baghdad, Ben Griffin told his commander that he was no longer prepared to fight alongside American forces. Ben Griffin told commanders that he thought the Iraq war was illegal He said he had witnessed "dozens of illegal acts" by US troops, claiming they viewed all Iraqis as "untermenschen" -...

Just back from a cruise out of Canaveral and wanted to share an experience while aboard the ship which may indicate that America ain’t what she used to be. Awoke the morning we pulled into Nassau and looked out the porthole to see two US Arleigh Burke class destroyers next to us. After the HUGE breakfast, strolled out onto deck 7 and got goose bumps when I noticed the shamrock on the stack of one of them. Walked aft to catch a view of the transom of that boat. It was the USS “THE SULLIVANS!" The goose bumps intensified as...

I wrote this to a FReeper earlier. She was feeling much frustration with many here I believe because of what was, in her mind, a careless disregard for morality and the well-being of an innocent and quite defenseless girl, Terri Schiavo.The intelligent and good FReeper was at the point of wanting to leave FR. So I wrote her:*****Don't go, please. You're one of the folks here with a real good heart and very strong feelings. That is a very good combination. Don't go ........I'm getting a feeling (or a wish) that today (Wednesday) the Federal marshals or some others are...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

I am from the conservative state of Utah. I woke this morning to all the desperation on Newwork News that Kerry might just squeek out a win (LOL). I turned off TV and radio to call my wife. She stated that Kerry had called Bush. I ran to turn the TV and radio on. As long as it took to announce and then confirm that the story was true (about thirty minutes), there was coverage about the phone call. Then it all went dark and switched to local programming.I mean, here we are in the United States of America sitting...

Imagine my surprise when I clicked on the Drudge article "FU long overdue" which links to a Washington Post article. Right in the middle of the article pops up an ad crowing out:Time for a change. Make One. Donate to John Kerry – Give $50 now So now articles themselves - as biased as they are - aren't even enough. Planted INSIDE the attack on Preidsent Bush is an ad where you can DONATE MONEY to the opposition candidate! It is OUTRAGEOUS!

When Steve Price and John Laws discussed the first episode of the reality TV show The Block on air, one listener says he was so disgusted he became physically ill. Gary Burns, 47, heard Price on 2UE ask how parents would tell their children that two of the contestants, Gavin and Wazza, were gay. Laws said: "How would you explain it when children asked 'What do they do, Daddy?' " Mr Burns, who is seeking apologies and $40,000, complained to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal that the comments on June 2 last year encouraged listeners to think homosexuals were sick and...

Would you share a toothbrush with the postman? Would you eat a plate of bodily fluids or use a stained towel? Do you like worms and lice? No? Well, you are not odd. In fact, you share an ancient emotion with almost everybody on the planet. Disgust is such a powerful feeling that it can make you stop what you are doing, even make you physically sick. And it seems that people the world over feel disgust for the same sets of things: bodily fluids; excrement; creatures like lice, rats and cockroaches, and, in certain cases, other people.

Janet Apologizes, Says Super Bowl Stunt Went Too FarOne day after Janet Jackson's shocking Super Bowl halftime performance, the singer took responsibility for the breast-baring incident and said she never intended the stunt to go as far as it did. "The decision to have a costume reveal at the end of my halftime show performance was made after final rehearsals," Jackson said in a statement released Monday (February 2). "MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended — including the audience, MTV, CBS and...

Disgust, as many suspected, is a disease-avoidance mechanism TELEVISION is often viewed (at least by intellectuals) as an anti-intellectual medium. But truly clever people know how to harness even the most unpromising material, and that is what Val Curtis and her colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have done. They employed the mass-market appeal of TV to test a long-held, but unproven, hypothesis: that the emotion of disgust evolved to protect people from disease. They set up their experiment in October 2002, by publicising it on a BBC programme called “Human Instincts”, which was presented by...

The purpose of disgust has been quantitatively demonstrated for the first time - it is an evolved response that protects people from disease or harm.Researchers at the UK's London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine surveyed over 40,000 individuals, using a web-based questionnaire posted on BBC Online. Respondents were asked to rate a series of paired photographs according to how disgusting they found each one. In the pairs, one image had some link to disease, while the other was very similar but had no relevance to disease. For example, one pair had a photograph of a healthy-looking man, while in...

Speakers at the Wellstone “memorial service” said that people should honor Wellstone by electing Democrats. One even said that if his Republican friends really loved him, they would campaign for Democrats. The thread running through the speeches and much else Democrats say is that love and friendship means political agreement. It follows that political disagreement means lack of love and friendship. One cannot love someone with whom one disagrees. In short, Democrats hate people who disagree with them, and they believe themselves hated by those they hate. That liberals are full of hate is no revelation. What was truly hellish...