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The boss posted the unedited version yesterday; you can thank Naked Emperor News for turning it into the bite-sized confection you see before you. I grant you that at first blush it’s confusing to find Madam Speaker patronizing nutroots screechers about their virtue after she called health-care shouters “un-American” this week, but there’s actually a perfectly good explanation for it: She’s a shameless, robotic partisan hypocrite. As a tribute to her nuance and to her famous distaste for using swastikas to demonize one’s opponent, I offer you Zombie’s new photo gallery of the very best in left-wing “Republican = Nazi”...

DO NOT GO TO THE CARS.GOV WEBSITE! You will not believe what will happen to your computer if you do. This will explain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWs12ccbOiE

Associated Press Health Concerns Resurface Over Chemical Used in Hard-Plastic Polycarbonate Water Bottles ROCHESTER, N.Y., Catching his breath at a fitness club, Matt McHugh took a gulp of water from his trusty, hard-plastic Nalgene bottle and pondered the idea of switching to an alternative made of glass, stainless steel or another kind of plastic. Worries about a hormone-mimicking chemical used in the trendy sports accessory led a major Canadian retailer to remove Nalgene and other polycarbonate plastic containers from store shelves in early December. "It's definitely a concern but I'd like to learn more before I make any decisions about...

Today, I attended a lecture at the headquarters of the Heritage Foundation by Robert Spencer, author of various books on the threat of radical Islam. His lecture lasted for about 40 minutes. As I've noticed on his website, Jihad Watch, in his columns, and in a recent interview with Brian Lamb on CSPAN, Mr. Spencer is very knowledgeable on Islamic theology, history, and radical groups. I truly enjoyed his discussion. (If you want to watch it, go to The Truth About Muhammad. It is available in streaming video, streaming mp3, and downloadable mp3.) The lecture itself went on without incident....

Cheney heckled by anti-war protesters Vice president ignores shouts at ceremony for Howard Baker KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney was heckled by peace protesters Tuesday as he spoke at the groundbreaking for a public policy center honoring former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. During Cheney's remarks, about a half-dozen people protesting the war in Iraq yelled, "War, what is it good for?" and held up a large banner saying, "Peace Now." Cheney continued speaking and didn't acknowledge the protesters, who were escorted from the ceremony inside the University of Tennessee's basketball arena. About 50 protesters, most of...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3365839&mesg_id=3365839&page= Lots of snakes in the grass bragging about posting and/or getting banned.

We must make it perfectly clear to Rick Santorum that if he lets Specter chair the judiciary committee, we WILL NOT SUPPORT HIM in 2006 for Senate. Instead, we will support Pat Toomey. We must also make it perfectly clear to Bill Frist that if he does not block Specter Chairmanship, he might as well not even enter the 2008 primaries. Both of these men hold the power over Specter and we must threaten to boycott their futures if they ignore their base.

Campaigns Rally Against Wrong T-Shirts Wearing Opponent's Gear Can Mean Arrests, Ejections Nov. 1, 2004 - Behind the scenes of one of the most contentious presidential races in recent memory, both Democrats and Republicans have organized what can only be called the T-shirt defense squads. It is an all-out effort to spot T-shirts supporting the other candidate and block them from view, or in some cases to actually have the T-shirt-wearing offenders ejected or arrested. ABC News conducted a bipartisan experiment in which producers and volunteers went to rallies for each candidate wearing the other party's T-shirt, and found that...

One of Sen. John Kerry's celebrity supporters is ready to pull out all the stops to get him elected. Republicans are shrieking over a suggestion by rocker Moby that Democrats spread gossip about President Bush on the Internet. "No one's talking about how to keep the other side home on Election Day," Moby tells us. "It's a lot easier than you think and it doesn't cost that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes." Moby suggests that it's possible to seed doubt among Bush's far-right supporters on the Web. "You target his natural constituencies," says the Grammy-nominated techno-wizard....

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two former presidents and the widow of Lyndon B. Johnson are calling on the History Channel to investigate a documentary it aired alleging President Johnson was involved in the Kennedy assassination. Lady Bird Johnson said the film "falsely and irresponsibly" accuses her husband of conspiring to kill President Kennedy. No accusation made against Johnson "has hurt as painfully," the 91-year-old former first lady said in a Jan. 29 letter. Her husband died in 1973. Copies of her letter were sent to the chief executives of three companies that own A&E Networks, which includes the History Channel....

URL: http://www.caller.com/ccct/kris_tv/article/0,1641,CCCT_995_2086976,00.html Chamber Criticized For Facilitating Hired HelpBy Bart Bedsole, KRIS-TVJuly 3, 2003 The Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce is receiving criticism this week for it's involvement in Monday's redistricting protest in McAllen. The reason is that some of the people who boarded one of three buses to McAllen were hired through a local temp agency to take part in the protest, and the Chamber of Commerce's involvement in the trip has a lot of folks crying foul. The use of these "temps" for political purposes is nothing new. Candidates in every party have used them for holding signs,...

SALEM -- The harshest critics of the war protests in downtown Portland angrily called the demonstrators "terrorists" and wished aloud that the police and courts would treat them as such. This morning, that idea gets put to the test at the Oregon Legislature, where a ranking senator has introduced a bill to "create the crime of terrorism" and apply it to people who intentionally cause injury while disrupting commerce or traffic. If convicted, they would face imprisonment for life. Senate Bill 742 is the brainchild of Sen. John Minnis, R-Wood Village, a Portland police detective who also serves as chairman...

Thu Feb 20,10:50 AM ET Police and Greenpeace boats collides as Greenpeace try to block the transport of U.S. military equipment from Rotterdam February 20, 2003 in protest against possible war in Iraq. The environmental group said it used its Rainbow Warrior protest ship and rubber dinghies in a bid to stop a freight ship sailing from Rotterdam, the world's biggest port, for the Gulf. The Netherlands this week gave the green light for the United States to use its ports, airports and railways to move troops and equipment.

Let's say that you have been a lurker for a very long time, as you have not been a member of FR for very long, you must admit. If you had, you would know better than to replay for the umteenth time the same old tired boilerplate about FreeRepublic becoming a "though police state" etc. and so on. Why? because you would have seen the many, many, many previous examples of various complainant's rationales, and their almost immediate and complete factual refutation by veteran members of FR. You are not being censored. Your First Ammendment rights are not being trampled....