http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fool/ en-us Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:47:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071919/posts Carson City, NV - Pat Cattell, 71, is John McCain's contemporary and a lifelong Republican who switched to support Barack Obama. She said as she watched him accept the Democratic nomination for president that sees him as the future and presumptive Republican nominee John McCain as the past. She has her feet on the ground but her eyes stay fixed on the prize of an Obama victory in November. She was among nearly 30 Democrats at a house party Thursday evening here to hear and watch Obama's speech. She isn't anti-McCain. "A fine decent man," she said of the senator... http://www.krnv.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071919/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:47:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2066091/posts Civilized world vs uncivilzed http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2066091/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:40:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042181/posts The recently freed Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt has urged an end to the Colombian government's "vocabulary of hate" against her former captors. Ms Betancourt, a former presidential candidate, was held hostage for six years by Marxist Farc rebels. But, while praising President Alvaro Uribe's work towards her release, she said it was time to end "extremist" language towards the Farc. Ms Betancourt is in Paris, where she flew after her release on Wednesday. "I think we have reached a point where we must change this radical, extremist vocabulary of hate of very strong words that intimately wound the human being,"... BBC.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042181/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 02:08:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005950/posts MADRID (AFP) — Last week's meeting between former US president Jimmy Carter and the exiled leader of Hamas militants did not produce any results, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said here Wednesday. "President Carter came to the region thinking he could achieve something. Unfortunately president Carter left without anything concrete," he told a conference in the Spanish capital. "The only thing he achieved was permission on the part of Khaled Meshaal of Hamas to deliver a letter from a detained Israeli soldier to his family. Nothing else," he said. "Hamas offered nothing to president Carter. They reiterated the same positions.... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005950/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:31:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994805/posts WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States was for slavery “before we were against it.” That history lesson was brought to you by Sen. John Kerry, who argues that if an entire nation can be indecisive about human bondage, voters surely should forgive a political leader who changes his or her mind. “Decisiveness wrongly applied can create a lot of pain for the nation and big, big historic mistakes,” says the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee labeled a “flip-flopper” by President Bush. Four years after his unsuccessful run, Kerry sat down with Associated Press reporters for more than 30 minutes to discuss... Meadville Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994805/posts#comment Tue, 1 Apr 2008 01:29:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1957425/posts Charlize Theron has referred to the Turkish city of Istanbul as Budapest three times in an interview about her "backpacking" adventures around the world. Theron, an Oscar winner known for taking on tough roles, described buying Turkish carpets in a bazaar and attending the Istanbul International Film Festival in "Budapest", the Daily Mail reports. National News Nine (Australia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1957425/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:56:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1953194/posts Do you have a very best stock? A stock that brings you closer to retirement year in and year out? One like Kraft, formerly American Dairy Products, which -- as tracked back by Dr. Jeremy Siegel -- turned $1,000 into more than $2 million over 53 years with dividend reinvestment? In terms of returns, Kraft has quite literally been the very best stock of the past half-century. I pay special attention to this stuff: My job is to find companies with the same magic that's made Kraft such a dynamite stock. A repeatable fortune What's the secret of Kraft's phenomenal... Motley Fool http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1953194/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:27:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946628/posts Last weekend after returning to my office from the television studios of a major network where I had done a brief segment on the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, I turned on CNN to watch their coverage of the Bhutto assassination's aftermath. Sen. Hillary Clinton was telling Wolf Blitzer that she didn't think "the Pakistani government at this time under President Musharraf has any credibility at all." She then said something that betrayed a serious lack of knowledge about Pakistan and called her own credibility on the subject into serious question. "If President Musharraf wishes to stand for election," she... Middle East Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946628/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jan 2008 05:56:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946790/posts Last week, pundits across the spectrum castigated Mike Huckabee for a couple of glaring mistakes in his response to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. He offered "apologies" to Pakistanis, later clarifying to "condolences", and inexplicably placed Afghanistan on Pakistan's eastern border, rather than western. If those gaffes qualify for headline treatment, then Hillary Clinton's confusion on Pakistani politics should get top-of-the-wires treatment, at least: Senator Hillary Clinton was praised in the wake of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto for demonstrating her command of the players and the issues at stake in Pakistan, even as another candidate,... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946790/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jan 2008 17:23:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935477/posts This is what you call a man who is out of touch. There is no excuse for him to be speaking with authority about something so important without having done his homework. PatDollard.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935477/posts#comment Thu, 6 Dec 2007 06:12:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934660/posts Pretty much. Here’s what he said: MIKE HUCKABEE: I’ve been to Guantanamo, I was there, I guess it’s been about a year and a half ago. I think the problem with Guantanamo is not in that its facilities are inadequate. It’s the symbol that it represents. It’s clearly become a symbol to the rest of the world as a place that has become problematic for us as a nation. I was quite frankly impressed with the quality of the facilities and even the attention to care that was given to the detainees, but that aside, it doesn’t alter that Guantanamo... American Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934660/posts#comment Tue, 4 Dec 2007 20:36:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885557/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush should announce on September 15 an initial pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq to spur the Iraqi government to take steps toward political reconciliation, an influential Republican senator said on Thursday. Virginia Sen. John Warner said Bush should "announce on the 15th that in consultation with our senior military commanders he has decided to initiate the the first step in a withdrawal of our forces." Reuters via Yahoo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885557/posts#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:07:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876250/posts A day after blasting Democratic presidential rival Sen. Hillary Clinton for accepting campaign donations from News Corp. officials, John Edwards acknowledged that he, too, had gotten payments from an arm of the company but said all of the money went to charity. Wall Street Journal on-line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876250/posts#comment Sat, 4 Aug 2007 11:30:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843951/posts Perhaps Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico and Democrat presidential candidate, and his handlers misunderstood: Candor, not cluelessness, is the new political-speak. It is the only plausible explanation they can use following his abysmal performance on "Meet the Press" last Sunday, an appearance peppered with so many apologies and I-shouldn't-have-said-thats that one might think they were at a backwoods revival. His "Meet the Press" mistakes came in every size -- big ones and small ones, even medium-sized ones: from immigration flip-flops to character flaws that reflect a propensity for exaggeration. Heck, he even flubbed his favorite baseball team. SNIP Then... TRIBUNE-REVIEW http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843951/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jun 2007 06:05:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838065/posts Michaal Ramirez's cartoon commentary on Jimmy Carter is here. IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838065/posts#comment Tue, 22 May 2007 22:47:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815233/posts Just call him the pimpinatorGOVERNOR TAKES BIODIESEL PUSH TO `PIMP MY RIDE' By Kate Folmar MediaNews Sacramento Bureau Article Launched: 04/10/2007 01:34:25 AM PDT Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is hooking up with the MTV reality show "Pimp My Ride" for a special Earth Day episode that he hopes will boost the street cred of low-emission cars. Typically, the program features everyday people who have their trashed rides tricked out into bling-mobiles with built-in espresso machines or lava lamps. But for this episode, the crew will transform a 1965 Chevy Impala into a clean, green biodiesel machine. Efforts to reduce global warming... San Jose Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815233/posts#comment Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:46:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1812065/posts A Chinese man is divorcing his wife after she pretended to hang herself as an April Fool's joke It happened when Mr Lin, of Shanghai, came home on April 1 after a business trip, reports the Shanghai Evening Post. "When I opened the door, I saw a black object swinging in the air. When I turned on the light I was shocked to see my wife had hanged herself," he said. Lin immediately called police and the property office. Office staff helped Lin take down the 'body' while waiting for the police. Ananova http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1812065/posts#comment Wed, 4 Apr 2007 21:40:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1810204/posts Ten of the best April Fool's Day hoaxes: US museum Thu Mar 29, 4:19 AM ET From television revealing that spaghetti grows on trees to advertisements for the left-handed burger, the tradition of April Fool's Day stories in the media has a weird and wonderful history. Here are 10 of the top April Fool's Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped. -- In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil,... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1810204/posts#comment Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:25:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728113/posts Former Booker winner and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Nadine Gordimer, has been attacked at her home in South Africa. Gordimer, 83, was assaulted when three men broke into her home in Johannesburg on Thursday, taking cash and jewellery. The author, who was locked in a store room with her maid while the burglars fled the scene, did not receive any serious injuries. Police spokesman Sergeant Sanku Tsunke said no arrests had been made. Despite demands to hand over her jewellery, Gordimer refused to part with her wedding ring from her marriage to art dealer Reinhold Cassirer, who... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728113/posts#comment Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:40:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712288/posts QALAT, Afghanistan U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government. The Tennessee Republican said he had learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated by military means. "You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished we'll be... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712288/posts#comment Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:00:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1709520/posts LITTLE ROCK In an appearance in Little Rock today, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright criticized the Bush administration's foreign policy as a "mess." Albright says the White House is ignoring other international problems by focusing solely on the Middle East. About 12-hundred people turned out at the Statehouse Convention Center to hear Albright speak. She served as Secretary of State and as Ambassador to the United Nations under President Bill Clinton. Today's appearance was sponsored by the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service and the Clinton Foundation. In her speech, Albright criticized Bush's foreign policy team and... AP via WREG Memphis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1709520/posts#comment Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:48:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685694/posts Judiciary: Detroit Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has agreed to the American Civil Liberties Union's demands to shut down the National Security Agency's wiretapping program. Terrorists everywhere are cheering. The 73-year-old Judge Taylor, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979, has a long history as a radical. In 1964, she helped set up a Mississippi office of the National Lawyers Guild, which Congress in 1950 called the "legal bulwark of the Communist Party." What happened Thursday was nothing less than a judicial disarmament of the U.S. — stripping away some of our most valuable weapons in the global war on terror. IBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685694/posts#comment Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:14:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682638/posts Comments Appear In Men's Vogue Magazine Interview (CBS) CHICAGO U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is now talking openly about running for the White House. The senator graces the cover of the September-October issue of Men’s Vogue magazine, which hits the stands on Aug. 22. In an interview with writer Jacob Weisberg, Obama talks more than ever about the possibility of running for President. Obama is quoted in the magazine, “Look, it was highly unlikely that I would ever be a U.S. senator, so it’s very flattering for people to talk about a presidential race." “My attitude about something like the... CBS2CHICAGO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682638/posts#comment Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:58:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676066/posts Globalization: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is having a grand time cavorting around the world on his Axis Of Evil tour. But we notice he's disgusting as many countries as he's wooing. Vietnam is the most interesting. Chavez blew into Hanoi on Monday and right away began praising Vietnam's government in exactly the way it didn't want: by hailing communism. "Vietnam, with its valor, defeated imperialism not only on the battlefield, but also has maintained socialism in the ideological arena," the South American dictator intoned. Uh-huh. To Vietnam's officials, who've been trying diligently to integrate their nation into the world economy, that's... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676066/posts#comment Wed, 2 Aug 2006 00:30:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1674332/posts Recently, we met an engineer from Air Synergy Labs, Inc. who has invented and patented (U.S. and Canadian Patents) a simple device that may in fact help to increase the performance of most any internal combustion engine.  If that’s the case, then his invention (he calls it the VortexValve™) might provide us with a simple and easy way to save huge amounts of money on transportation costs (i.e., the amount of fuel we have to buy for our cars, trucks, buses, etc.).  The story behind this unique device and its almost serendipitous discovery is quite fascinating and one of these... vortexvalvenw.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1674332/posts#comment Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:32:09 GMT