http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dumbass/ en-us Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:13:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420831/posts State Sen. Anthony D. Galluccio was led away in handcuffs today, sentenced to one year in jail for violating the terms of his home confinement. A judge sentenced the Cambridge Democrat after a full day of testimony over his failed Breathalyzer test Dec. 21. Galluccio blamed the bad test results on his toothpaste. He must now serve out his term in the House of Correction. Developing ... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420831/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:13:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413505/posts Update 9:09AM: As of very recently, NBC Washington has taken DOWN this post in response. Thank you NBC for this first step. We anxiously await your written response as well. Thanks to everyone for your action. As a DC area resident and WV native, I am outraged at the recent insulting and downright offensive “news” article from NBC Washington titled “West Virginia Discovers the Internet“. In this not even remotely humorous piece, Chris Needham mocks WV in over-the-top obnoxious terms for putting all of their vital public records online. In fact, WV is actually one of very few states in... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413505/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:18:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413001/posts The night that off-duty Ogden police Officer Jared Tongsaeng Ingalsbe crashed into two power poles, four cars and a house in Harrisville, there was both alcohol and a prescription drug in his bloodstream. Ingalsbe was initially charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, a class B misdemeanor. But prosecutors later allowed the officer to plead guilty to a non-alcohol-related reckless driving charge, which left him facing none of the usual drunken-driving sanctions like license suspension and substance-abuse treatment classes. Deputy Weber County Attorney Christopher Allred explained Monday that toxicology reports did not support beyond a reasonable doubt... Salt Lake Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413001/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:59:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412296/posts NEW YORK (Dec. 18) -- A career criminal massacred three members of a family in their apartment but fell to his death when he tripped over his own baggy pants. Sphere http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412296/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:47:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411144/posts State Senator Anthony D. Galluccio pleaded guilty today to fleeing the scene of a car crash in October and was sentenced to six months home confinement with two notable exceptions: The Cambridge Democrat, who has been convicted twice of driving under the influence of alcohol, will be allowed to leave home for church on Sunday and to cast votes in the state Senate. Galluccio will be barred, however, from attending legislative meetings at the State House, and he resigned his posts on seven committees, including his chairmanship of Higher Education and his seat on Mental Health and Substance Abuse. The... Boston Glob http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411144/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:30:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396873/posts SEATTLE -- The suspect in the fatal shooting of four officers in Parkland was not found inside a Seattle home that was surrounded by a SWAT team and numerous officers, Pierce Co. Sheriff Detective Ed Troyer said. Maurice Clemmons, 37, was believed to be holed up in the home in the Leschi neighborhood after he was shot and wounded by one of the four slain officers before fleeing from the Parkland coffee shop where the officers were gunned down. KIRO-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396873/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:40:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2388691/posts Here's the first teaser image http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2388691/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:32:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387687/posts CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Nov. 16) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday that he had no regrets about his handling of the Iran hostage crisis more than 30 years ago, saying he didn't attack the country as his advisers proposed because thousands of people would have died. Islamic militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, and seized its occupants. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days. Carter acknowledged that his failure to bring the hostages home — including a botched rescue mission in which eight U.S. servicemen died — led to his election defeat... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387687/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:54:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360870/posts OGDEN -- A 30-year-old Bountiful man was arrested after a nurse said he groped her twice while his wife was in labor at McKay-Dee Hospital early Friday. Adam Manning was booked on a felony charge of forcible sex abuse and on an outstanding warrant for shoplifting. Around 3 a.m., the nurse was pushing Manning's wife in a wheelchair when Manning began making comments to the nurse and touched her breast, said Police Lt. Loring Draper. "He commented on her appearance...on how attractive she was, how cute she was," Draper said. Police say Manning's wife didn't see him grope the nurse,... Ogden Standard-Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360870/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:49:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2359029/posts A group of renowned world leaders have discovered that the previously known "Bridge To Nowhere" actually leads directly to Obama! This shocking discovery was made by a collective of physicists, governmental analysts and folks standing in line outside of Cobo Hall in Detroit waiting for their stimulus money from Obama's "stash"! Researchers had previously denied that the bridge went anywhere, but since the Nobel Committee announcement, Obama is the center of the entire universe, it became obvious to all that this bridge MUST in fact lead to Obama. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, when reached on the satellite phone in... ME http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2359029/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:37:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351950/posts Michelle Obama: It's a 'sacrifice' to travel to Europe to pitch for the Olympics. For Oprah and the president, too. But we're doing it for the kids. By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent09/30/09 5:12 PM EDT In her speech in Copenhagen today, First Lady Michelle Obama said her trip to Denmark, along with the travel of her "dear friend" and "chit-chat buddy" Oprah Winfrey, as well as tomorrow's visit by President Obama, is a "sacrifice" on behalf of the children of Chicago and the United States. "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351950/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:11:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343581/posts It was a rough night for CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday night's "Jeopardy!" The "Situation Room" anchor came in last — and even in the red before Final Jeopardy — and lost to Dana Delany and Andy Richter. Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343581/posts#comment Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:49:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319879/posts JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Former Pink Floyd lead singer Roger Waters narrated a United Nations film about Palestinian difficulties caused by the security fence. The 15-minute film opened Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of the International Court of Justice's opinion that the fence's route is illegal, the French news agency AFP reported. Waters wrote the lyrics to the Pink Floyd album "The Wall." Israel says the wall almost completely stopped Palestinian suicide attacks during the second intifada. The Palestinians charge that the fence cuts off Palestinian farmers from their land and will prohibit them from forming a state in the... JTA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319879/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:31:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2317799/posts <p>OGDEN, Aug 15, 2009 (Standard-Examiner - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Formal charges have been filed against the bicyclists arrested in a recent Critical Mass confrontation with police.</p> <p>About 35 or more members of the cyclist advocacy group were on an Aug. 7 ride in downtown Ogden when members became unruly, police say. Four cyclists were arrested.</p> Ogden Standard-Examiner via TMC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2317799/posts#comment Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:39:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311935/posts OGDEN -- Was it a friendly group bicycle ride through downtown Ogden or a confrontational melee that included obstructing traffic, assault, obscenities and alcohol? Depends on who you talk to. Numbers vary from 35 to 70, but a large group of cyclists, referred to as Critical Mass, was taking a monthly ride to celebrate cycling and assert their rights to the road on Friday when Ogden police say things got out of hand. Four individuals were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, failure to disperse and public intoxication. Matt Hasenyager, owner of Skyline Cycle and one of the bicyclists, said... Ogden Standard Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311935/posts#comment Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:21:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309237/posts His lack of integrity was deeply troubling, but it was the world-class arrogance that did the real military damage. It should be evident to all that Robert S. McNamara, to paraphrase a line from the 1940 book Guilty Men, was among the worst selections for high office since Caligula chose to make his horse a consul at Rome. He died July 6 at age 93. TodayÂ’s officials can profit from studying his career. McNamara, the Pentagon chief in the Kennedy and Johnson years, showed sketchy character on many occasions, but nowhere did he do this more baldly than in his... Air Force Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309237/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 01:07:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2305632/posts (CNN) — Despite his campaign-trail promises, President Obama has failed to change the partisan tone in Washington, Arizona Sen. John McCain said Friday. "I'm afraid they have," Obama's former presidential rival told CNN's John King when asked if the administration has 'failed' in delivering on its repeated pledge of bipartisanship. CNN - Political Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2305632/posts#comment Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:24:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293740/posts A wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not know that a gaggle of white Republican men afraid of extinction are out to trip her up. New York Slime http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293740/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:10:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291936/posts <p>How can citizens of a free country speak such hateful words directed at another human being? (you are talking about Chris Parry, right?- Mod) After reading the ignorant postings found on this site Daily KOS I feel sick to my stomach and ashamed to be an American.Get with Michelle Obama on that.</p> One Zotted Kos Kiddo out of more than two dozen today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291936/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:12:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285963/posts WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden said the Obama administration "misread how bad the economy was" but stands by its stimulus package and believes the plan will create more jobs as the pace of its spending picks up. Biden, in an interview airing Sunday on ABC's "This Week," said the nation's 9.5 percent unemployment rate is "much too high." "The figures we worked off of in January were the consensus figures and most of the blue chip indexes out there," Biden said. "We misread how bad the economy was, but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery... Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285963/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 16:11:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220656/posts Cops in Florida are on the lookout for a stupid criminal with a broken face after the suspect attempted to break into a house by diving head-first into the back door -- which was locked. TMZ.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220656/posts#comment Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:55:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2216377/posts Friday, March 27, 2009 Print ShareThisCanadian extreme skier and base jumper, Shane McConkey, died Thursday following a ski-base accident that ocurred while filming his latest movie in Italy, the Inquisitr reported. McConkey, 39, experienced problems in the air after jumping off of a cliff in the expectation that he would be able to detach his skis and deploy his parachute, thus enabling him to glide safely to the ground, according to the Inquisitr. According to a witness, one of McConkey's skis failed to detach causing him to spin out of control and ultimately prevented him from deploying his parachute, the... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2216377/posts#comment Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:01:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212290/posts Help me out here folks Could he really be this stupid???? Now Obama has insulted French President Sarkozy! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh no! Obama sent a letter to Chirac, saying he looks forward to working with him the next four years. Le Figaro, French newspaper is horrified at the faux pas. Doesn't Obama ever consult his staff before acting? Sarkozy is the President there! It's like Sarko writing to George Bush and saying he looks forward to working with him. Chirac is the FORMER president. Here is a translation of the letter in Le Figaro: Vendredi 20 mars 2009 OBAMA PREFERS CHIRAC... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212290/posts#comment Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:56:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210429/posts The first appearance by a sitting president on "The Tonight Show" may well end up being the last. President Obama, in his taping with Jay Leno Thursday afternoon, attempted to yuk it up with the funnyman, and ended up insulting the disabled. Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he's gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley. He bowled a 129, the president said. "That's very good, Mr. President," Leno said sarcastically. It's "like the Special Olympics or something," the president said. When asked about the remark,... ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210429/posts#comment Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:06:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206539/posts A robber gets more than he bargained for when he targets a Tae Kwon Do studio in suburban Milwaukee. The robber thought he could quietly slip in and out of David Kang's studio in Fox Point with some loot. What he didn't realize is that he would encounter a Tae Kwon Do master who wasn't about to let him off the hook. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206539/posts#comment Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:49:20 GMT