http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/duh/ en-us Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:56:24 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410243/posts One day after a judge denied wife-killer Eric Grant's request for early release from state prison, Corrections Commissioner William Wrenn yesterday changed the policy that allowed him to petition the court in the first place. Wrenn signed a revised policy that prohibits murderers and all violent offenders from seeking early release by petitioning the sentence-modification review board to be able to apply to the court to get out early. Union Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410243/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:56:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404147/posts If you check Obama's last trip overseas, his wife left just after their visit to France as stated below. She has yet to accompany him to any Arab country. Think about it.. This was sent to me from a very good and reliable friend. The pieces of the puzzle just keep on coming together! Interesting... "I did not write this... someone forwarded it to me,... but my wife lived in Saudi Arabia for two years, and from what she tells me, it makes sense! Travel for Obama: I was at a Blockbusters on Saturday renting videos, and as I was... Patriot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404147/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:06:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403872/posts ...This 2009 e-mail exhortation urges Americans to consider the suggestion that they vote all incumbents out of the House of Representatives during the upcoming elections in November 2010, as well as voting all incumbents out of the Senate over the next three elections (i.e., 2010, 2012, 2014). Whether voters should take up such a suggestion is a matter of opinion that has no "true" or "false" value to it, so the aspect we'll address here is one which a number of our readers have questioned, namely the basic premise that all the seats in the House will be up for... Snopes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403872/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:18:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396437/posts A poll released today shows Americans' belief in the current health-care system has risen dramatically in the last year, and support for a socialized solution to a health-care "crisis" has nearly evaporated. The latest results from Rasmussen Reports show 49 percent of Americans now rate the quality of the U.S. health-care system as good or excellent, to only 27 percent that still argue it's poor. The favorable numbers reflect a 20-point jump from prior to the presidential election, when a June 2008 Rasmussen poll showed only 29 percent rated the health-care system so well and 37 percent rated it poor.... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396437/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:25:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368385/posts After railing against labor unions, waste and fraud in the past, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday found a new target to blame for California's budget woes: judges who "are going absolutely crazy." As pieces of the July state budget solution begin to unravel, the Republican governor said judges – especially on the federal level – are preventing California from solving its problems. He complained in particular about judicial actions that have struck down some state worker furloughs, required reductions in the prison population, imposed restrictions on water delivery in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and this week blocked cuts to in-home... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368385/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:45:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368036/posts WASHINGTON – Nicole Kidman conceded Wednesday that Hollywood has probably contributed to violence against women by portraying them as weak sex objects. The Oscar-winning actress said she is not interested in those kinds of demeaning roles, adding that the movie industry also has made an effort to contribute to solutions for ending the violence. Kidman testified before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that is considering legislation to address violence against women overseas through humanitarian relief efforts and grants to local organizations working on the problem. Asked by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., if the movie industry has "played a bad role,"... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368036/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:41:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2358076/posts Researchers from Imperial College London believe that when species become asexual they could be on their way to extinction... P. marneffei is a fungus which causes disease in people with damaged immune systems, such as HIV/AIDS patients, and it is only found in parts of south-east Asia... Dr Bill Hanage, one of the paper's authors, from Imperial College London, adds: "By being asexual, P. marneffei is not only limiting its ability to adapt, it may be at risk of becoming extinct. If it is unable to adapt to new environments, it will be unable to adapt to changes in its... ScienceDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2358076/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 02:56:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338920/posts Ever since Glenn Beck took to the Fox television airwaves recently to offer a bizarre reading of the art commissioned 70 years ago for New York's Rockefeller Center, I've been puzzled by the graphic design element of his 9-12 Project. The logo (pictured) for his affiliated groups' rally in Washington, D.C., this weekend derives from century-old communist, socialist and other left-wing designs. Those were the motifs he railed against in his Rockefeller rant. For the logo, three raised and clenched red fists are superimposed over the U.S. Capitol. Obviously the bloody fist represents the tea-baggers' themes of unity and resistance.... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338920/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:31:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337887/posts I believe I may have an insight into why so many conservatives crazy-hate Barack Obama: He's a liberal. A true liberal. An unabashed liberal. Yes, there's a liberal in the White House -- and most Americans aren't disgusted by that. In fact, most approve of him. (His approval rating is on par with that of Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan eight months into their presidencies.) Worse, he's a liberal with an ambitious liberal agenda. And even worse, he might just succeed in enacting it. During Obama's speech before a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, he presented a strong... Politics Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337887/posts#comment Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:26:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336842/posts NEW YORK – Many of the people working with President Obama are Marxists or socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party, according to a socialist Columbia University professor with strong ties to Obama's radical associates, including Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers. "What makes Obama different is that he has also been a community organizer. He has read left literature, including my works, and he understands what socialism is," wrote Manning Marable, professor and founding director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. "A lot of the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336842/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:08:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330465/posts The dangers of homosexual behavior have been long known to anyone with eyes to see them and ears to hear them, despite the “mainstream” media’s efforts to sweep this information under the rug and pretend it doesn’t exist; they are, after all, willing and eager participants in the effort to whitewash homosexuality in the eyes of the public. Yet the information keeps popping up in places like the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the New England Journal of Medicine, the Department of Justice, the American Sociological Review, the Archives of General Psychology, the Washington Blade, the Journal of Sex Research... Dakota Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330465/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:49:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320128/posts In a study sure to ruffle the feathers of the Global Warming cabal, Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT has published a paper which proves that IPCC models are overstating by 6 times, the relevance of CO2 in Earth’s Atmosphere. Dr. Lindzen has found that heat is radiated out in to space at a far higher rate than any modeling system to date can account for. Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320128/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:18:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319844/posts (IsraelNN.com) Rubin Margules, a member of the Zionist Organization of America’s National Executive Board, told Israel National News that American Jews have begun to realize they made a mistake by voting for U.S. President Barack Obama. Margules, who accompanied former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on his trip to Judea and Samaria Tuesday, said Israel should learn to find alliances outside of the U.S. and act in its own best interests. IsraelNationalNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319844/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:57:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315292/posts <p>A man walked into a Midtown bank last week, gave his name and account number to the teller and showed his ID. It was his real name and it was his own account. The ID had his picture.</p> <p>Then he handed over a piece of paper -- a receipt -- with a note scribbled on the back.</p> Anchorage Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315292/posts#comment Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:17:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309536/posts WASHINGTON – Legislation to permit law enforcement to jam prisoners' cellphone calls easily cleared a Senate committee on Wednesday, the latest example of how Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has used her seniority to push Texas-centric issues that translate directly to her run for governor. Yet Hutchison has been absent from the committee's work on two top priorities of Congress: health care legislation and consumer protection. When she recently announced her departure from the Senate in the fall, she said she'd stay in Washington long enough to participate in the health legislation. Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309536/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:18:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303489/posts A Fox News Channel commentator, Glenn Beck, said he believed President Barack Obama was a racist. Beck made the statement during a guest appearance on the "Fox & Friends" morning show. He said Mr Obama had exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture". His remarks came during a discussion over Mr Obama's reaction to the arrest of the Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates junior Mr Gates is black and was arrested for disorderly conduct by a white policeman over a misunderstanding about a break-in at his home. A spokesman for... Telegraph (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303489/posts#comment Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:21:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297601/posts A new literature review, published by The Lancet, emphasizes the great proportion of HIV/AIDS cases among men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan Africa, a fact often ignored in the fight against AIDS in Africa. The study concludes, however, that the solution to the problem lies in greater openness to homosexual practices from the African nations and better access to interventions, a solution that experts from the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) have called "simplistic." The review, principally authored by Dr. Adrian D. Smith of the University of Oxford, calls for greater acceptance of... Life Site News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297601/posts#comment Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:42:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294112/posts The director of the Congressional Budget Office issued a warning to Democrats Thursday that their health care proposals would raise costs, not lower them. One day after a Senate panel approved its version of the health care reform plan, the first committee to do so, CBO Director Doug Elmendorf gave a dose of bad medicine to a separate committee. Asked by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., whether costs would be lowered -- also known as "bending the curve" -- Elmendorf responded: "The curve is being raised." Subsidies to help uninsured people would raise federal health care spending, which... fox news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294112/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:37:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2292320/posts Do tell. RedEye http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2292320/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:22:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293054/posts I post many items here, from business to politics and evrything in between, and sometimes entertainment as a nice distraction from all of the corrupt politicians. Recently I tried to post an article about a supermodel who is pregnant. I thought it was a mistake after it was pulled the first time, but it was pulled a second. What is so objectionable to this news item? And is there a place we can look for a set of rules, as I have seen much worse than this posted int he past. freerepublic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293054/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:23:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1221697/posts (New York-WABC, September 20, 2004) — Breaking news concerning President Bush's visit to New York. Eyewitness News is told that there has been a credible threat against the president Monday. From the AP: The News in Photographs The Day's Top 25 Stories- NY, NJ, CT, US, Entertainment Your Hourly Forecast Eyewitness News' political reporter Dave Evans says the first sign of something going on came when security around the president's visit got even tighter than usual. He says authorities are looking for a 55-year-old man named Lawrence J. Ward in connection with the reported attempt on the president's life. Ward... WABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1221697/posts#comment Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:34:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2270545/posts Despite porn industry assurances that an adult film actress' recent positive HIV test is the first since a 2004 outbreak shut down production for a month, Los Angeles County health officials said Thursday that at least 16 additional unpublicized cases of HIV have been confirmed in adult film performers. The newly released data bring the number of HIV cases in porn performers in the last five years to 22, including the case disclosed this week. LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2270545/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:07:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267275/posts MSDNC skewers the teleprompter in chief MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267275/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 16:52:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264363/posts Last year China Construction Bank's net profit soared 10% to $11.9 billion. In the same period, Bank of America, which at the time owned some 19% of the Chinese lender, earned just $4 billion, down 73% from 2007. That's all you need to know to understand why Bank of America in May sold a 5.8% stake in China Construction Bank for $7.3 billion. Bank of America has been so badly hurt by the U.S. financial crisis that it needs to raise billions of dollars to recapitalize. Meanwhile, Chinese banks are making money hand over fist as China's economy continues to... time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264363/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 03:53:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262370/posts Cheney Supports Gay Marriage It's not surprising when Vice President Dick Cheney disagrees with President Obama. But it is surprising when he takes a more progressive position than the president. Said Cheney: "I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal... politicalwire.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262370/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:08:50 GMT