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How many Freepers know about this program? It gives a free mobile phone to low-income households and free 68 minutes of airtime per month. Tracphone has this website: Safelink WirelessI tried to find what legislation established this, but cannot.

SafeLink Wireless is a government supported program that provides a free cell phone and airtime each month for income-eligible customers. Yes, the newest entitlement - a free cellphone and airtime for a wide variety of people. Including those who get free school lunches. And you thought the Obamassiah was going to stop at just nationalizing the auto industry, the banks, and the health industry. No, he's going after telecom, too!

Tomorrow there will be free one year licenses for security software! Coiciding with W7 release of course. http://us.pandasecurity.com/windows7party/index.html http://usa.kaspersky.com/shakeitup/ I don't know panda security, but Kaspersky, cool! One day only, for one year free! I'll try to ping this tomorrow.

The free market is not up to the job of creating workBy Mort Zuckerman Last updated: October 18 2009 19:21 America has always been a country that thrives on hard work, thrift and self-reliance. We have all absorbed Benjamin Franklin’s maxim: “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” This helped create jobs. In an application of Schumpeter’s notion of creative destruction, the US lost 44m jobs in the last two decades of the 20th century, but simultaneously created 73m private sector jobs. A stunning 55 per cent of the total workforce was in...

Sarah Palin wants to sell some books. She is giving an interview to Oprah Winfrey that will air Monday, Nov. 16. Winfrey has the golden touch when it comes to pushing books. The Winfrey folks called the interview a "world exclusive." It will be Palin's first interview to promote her book, "Going Rogue: An American Life." And people said this meeting would never happen! What do you think about this? The interview will air during the important November ratings period, so Palin should help Winfrey, too. That's how the book business works, folks. The interview will be Palin's first appearance...

Congress's fabulous golf cart stimulus. We thought cash for clunkers was the ultimate waste of taxpayer money, but as usual we were too optimistic. Thanks to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of President Obama's stimulus plan, Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to buy that great necessity of modern life, the golf cart. The federal credit provides from $4,200 to $5,500 for the purchase of an electric vehicle, and when it is combined with similar incentive plans in many states the tax credits can pay for nearly the entire cost of a golf cart....

A Christian couple in England is now at risk of losing their business after being prosecuted for debating Islam with a Muslim guest. Police arrested Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang, who run the Bounty House Hotel in Liverpool, after a Muslim woman complained that she was offended by comments made to her in March. Because the legal case is ongoing the couple cannot comment publicly. According to newspaper reports, the debate at the hotel involved discussion of whether Jesus was the son of God or just a minor prophet of Islam. Newspapers also reported the debate included comments that Mohammed was...

DETROIT (WXYZ) - Thousands of people jammed into Cobo Hall and lined up around the building to seek out housing aid from the federal government. It quickly turned into a mess with reports of fights and nearly a stampede. People started lining up around midnight, but the real chaos broke out near the front entrance that leads to the ballroom. Thousands of people jammed into too tight of a space. There were reports of fights and people passing out in the crowd.

Going back to Mexico is not an option, said the 43-year-old man, kneeling next to his wife's wheelchair.His wife, 45, lost her eyesight to diabetes. She also has high blood pressure. And her kidneys are failing. For years, he has taken her to a dialysis clinic attached to a public hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. The facility that gave her free care plans to close Saturday. They are illegal immigrants with no health insurance and, they say they have nowhere to go for his wife's vast medical needs. The closing clinic offered to help return them to Mexico...the latest known case...

For someone who might have missed some classics or have just decided to stop being a DUmmie... what free ebooks would you recommend? From any source, could be from Mises "library" or from Gutenberg. Links if you got them!

HAVANA — President Raul Castro is taking a bold gamble to ease communist Cuba's cash crunch by eliminating a costly government lunch program that feeds almost a third of the nation's population every workday. The Americas' only one-party communist government, held afloat largely by support from its key ally Venezuela, is desperate to improve its budget outlook; the global economy is slack, and Havana is very hard pressed to secure international financing. Raul Castro, 76, officially took over as Cuba's president in February 2008 after his brother, revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, stepped aside with health problems. Though some wondered if...

Sky sources say Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi is set to be released on compassionate grounds due to his terminal cancer.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fannie Mae plans to tap $11 billion in new government aid after posting another massive quarterly loss as the taxpayer bill from the housing market bust keeps growing. Fannie Mae's new request for $10.7 billion from the Treasury Department will bring the total for Fannie and Freddie to nearly $96 billion. Freddie is expected to report its quarterly results on Friday. Together, Washington-based Fannie and McLean, Va.-based Freddie own or guarantee almost 31 million home loans worth about $5.4 trillion. That's about half of all U.S home mortgages. "We are dependent on the continued support of Treasury...

Wonderful message on "Independance" with references to the WWII memorial. Pastor EZ is Ray Comfort's (The Way of the Master) son in law and a refugee from Lebanon.

Thousands of low-income Coloradans reliant on public assistance could get a free cellphone under a plan before the state Public Utilities Commission. If approved, the plan by TracFone Wireless in Miami would make Colorado the 17th state it has settled into with free cell service for the indigent, a form of wireless welfare that proponents say taps into one of the last untapped markets for the telecom technology. "Our hope is to have it up and running by September," said Jose Fuentes, TracFone's director of government relations. "Historically, it's a very underutilized service, and we'd like that to change."

I don't know if this is posted, but this is a reminder that you can listen at http://www.kfar660.com/pages/639282.php

As tough as it is to admit it, Hillary Rodham Clinton got one right when she tried to warn America that Barack Obama was an inexperienced, naive poser without any achievement to his credit. As reported by the LA Times, in part, during the heat of the 2008 campaign: "I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. Sen. John McCain has a lifetime of experience that he’d bring to the White House. And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.” Zing! A good dagger to the heart by one...

“And the rocket’s red glare ..... the bombs bursting in air ..... gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave ..... O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?”

Can anyone recommend some websites where I can download free patriotic music for the 4th? I'm guessing Susa, military marches, themes of the armed forces, that kind of thing?

How to tell if you've been FReeping too longIf some, many or all of the following apply to you, you probably have been FReeping too long. You remember when you had to know basic HTML in order to form a decent post.  You remember when the entire thread had to be 86’d in order to remove a single post.  You remember when if someone forgot to close their italics, bold tags, the entire thread after that point was in bold or italics.  You remember when if a disruptor made a mess of things during the wee hours of the night,...

snip... "On the other end of the spectrum, it was traditionally Democratic states that earned the title of "least free," according to the study. Rhode Island, New Jersey, and New York-all of whom voted Democratic in the past three presidential elections-came in at 48th, 49th and 50th, respectively. However, it is important to note that the study's findings do not all fall along these predictable party lines. Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana, for example, all fall in the bottom eleven among states with the most Personal Freedom. Arkansas, Texas, and Missouri, meanwhile finish fourth, fifth, and sixth, respectively in...

The biggest idea I came out of SxSW with this year was that free is dead. Over. Overdone. We killed it. Because so much is free online, we expect it; where’s the value in that? It seems to me that the folks in Austin weren’t quite on this one yet… even SxSWi keynote speakers Guy Kawasaki and Chris Anderson seemed slow to the punch (Guy’s big bright idea for Chris’s new book “Free,” out this July, was to give it away for free. HELLO? Been there. Done that. Have they NOT notice that the music industry has already beaten this...

Here is the FREE Congressional Fax. just list the members of the committee, then prepare a letter and cut & paste into the Congressman or Senator’s Fax in an email. You can look each addressee’s name and informatoion in the State where they live. works great I sent to all of them last night. took about 10 minutes. Free Congressional Fax Site http://www.congressfax.com/

Proponents of government-run health care like to point out that countries with such a system spend a smaller percentage of their gross domestic product on health care than the United States. What they don't like to mention is how those savings are achieved. For example:

State sets new rules on free, low-cost hospital careConsumer protections enacted in response to Sun series By James Drew May 8, 2009 Maryland hospitals must use new standards to determine who is eligible for free and reduced-price care, and provide information about financial assistance to all patients under two bills signed into law Thursday by Gov. Martin O'Malley. The measures require state regulators to monitor whether hospitals comply with the new consumer protections, which also prohibit charging interest on bills incurred by uninsured patients before a court judgment is approved. The new rules, which take effect June 1, require hospitals...

US journalist freed by Iran, reunites with parents By ALI AKBAR DAREINI – 16 minutes agoTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An American journalist jailed for five months in Iran was freed Monday and reunited with her parents after an appeals court suspended her eight-year prison sentence on charges of spying for the U.S.Roxana Saberi, a 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen, met her parents outside Evin prison Monday evening after the court cut her jail term to a two-year suspended sentence, her lawyers said. While they awaited her release, her mother, in a headscarf, smiled while her father looked overcome with emotion."She was...

No matter how high they may be in the political arena, pay no attention to the apologists. Pay no attention to the appeasers of our enemies. Pay no attention to those who utter doomsday prophecies. Pay no attention to the fear mongers who would fill us with dread from manufactured crises, designed for evil purposes. Pay no attention to those who say we are weak and decadent. Pay no attention to the nay-sayers. Pay no attention to those who would run down America. Pay no attention to the socialists who would willingly tear down the fabric of our freedom and...

The Oprah Winfrey Show/Kentucky Grilled Chicken Two-Piece Meal Coupon Get two pieces of grilled chicken, two individual sides and a biscuit! Limited Time Download Coupon download available from 9 a.m. CDT on May 5, 2009, to 11:59 p.m. CDT on May 6, 2009. Coupon is redeemable at participating KFC® locations in the United States from May 5, 2009 to May 19, 2009—excluding Mother's Day, May 10, 20099. Go to unthinkkfc.com to download your coupon! Due to heavy demand, you may experience some slowness navigating to the website. Please be patient and try again later. Please email KFC.PublicRelations@KFC.com with any problems...

The Home Office has issued the latest list of people it believes should not come to the country because they hold extremist opinions. It is a state's prerogative to decide who it wants to come to its country. That is, after all, what a visa system is for. But those banned from entry used to be people who were likely to cause public disorder or who had criminal records. In the 1960s there was a row when George Raft, the Hollywood actor, was refused entry because of his alleged links to organised crime. Now we are more likely than not...

WASHINGTON, April 14, 2009 – For military students who can’t squeeze enough learning into the school year, the Department of Defense Education Activity has the perfect solution. For the fifth year, the agency is offering eligible students in kindergarten through 8th grade a free, four-week summer enrichment program with a curriculum emphasizing math and language arts. DoDEA officials expect enrollment of about 10 percent of all the 6,500 students in kindergarten through 8th grade in the activity’s school system, Joel K. Hansen, DoDEA’s special projects coordinator, said. “It’s not a remedial program. It’s not a program to help students...

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Should Obama let the US Automakers go into bankruptcy?

EXCERPT (long): Today we ran the story of Michelle Obama serving risotto at the soup kitchen down the street from the White House. She was surrounded by poor people frantically snapping photos with their cell phones. If you’re anything like us you wondered, how can the poor afford cell phones? The monthly bills on these things can eat you alive. We were tipped off to this website: safelinkwireless.com. But please be warned that if you visit this site you are likely to walk away pissed off. Here’s what it says:

EU slaps duties on U.S. biodiesel imports EU panel approves duties on U.S. biodiesel European Union trade panel approved on Tuesday temporary anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports of biodiesel from the United States, sources with knowledge of the decision said. "It went through with no problem," one source told Reuters on condition of anonymity after a meeting of the EU's anti-dumping committee of 27 national trade diplomats. From March 13, U.S. firms exporting biodiesel into the EU will have to pay additional tariffs for an initial six months, ranging from 26 euros ($32.88) to 41 euros per 100 kg....

President Barack Obama's first budget includes $15 billion a year for renewable energy programs and an ambitious plan to raise $646 billion from a carbon reduction proposal. "Because our future depends on our ability to break free from oil that's controlled by foreign dictators, we need to make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy," Mr. Obama said Thursday morning. "That's why we'll be working with Congress on legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy." The plan uses money from a cap-and-trade program — which would allow companies to...

I once had a dog named Jake that I liked very much. He was a well-behaved dog. When I asked him to sit, he would sit. When I asked him to shake, he would shake. When I asked him to stay, he would stay. Because he was so eager for praise and approval, it was easy to control his behavior. That old dog was a lot like the liberals who read my columns. (snip)Those who read yesterday’s column read my spoof apology for an email I claimed I had sent to the Department of Sociology and Criminology at UNC-Wilmington. The...

Barack Hussein Obama will propose a massive business tax on greenhouse gases in his FY 2010 federal budget to be presented this week.The massive tax increase and power grab was buried at the end on article on Obama's forthcoming budget proposal in The New York Times:On energy policy, Mr. Obama’s budget will show new revenues by 2012 from his proposal to require companies to buy permits from the government for greenhouse gas emissions above a certain cap. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the permits would raise up to $300 billion a year by 2020. Since companies would pass their...

The Hershey Co.'s Reading operation is closing and 252 workers are losing their jobs A bitter taste Reading never claimed to be the sweetest place on earth. But since 1986, this self-appointed "home of the pretzel" has been the proud host of a Hershey Co. plant that cranked out somewhat glitzier snacks such as York Peppermint Patties, 5th Avenue and Zagnut candy bars and Jolly Rancher hard candies. It all ends today. The last Peppermint Pattie line will come to a halt after the final swing shift, workers interviewed this week said. Unlike with much of the grim economic news,...

Our late colleague Jim Boulet last year unearthed the facts here and here and here on how the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) ‘localism' schemes could shut down or inhibit talk radio. Last Thursday, Ishmael Jones, nom de plume of a former officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) clandestine service, gave his take on the danger radio ‘localism' poses to free political speech in his American Thinker article "What the CIA's Censors Can Teach Us about Plans to Muzzle Talk Radio" here. Here is Ishmael Jones on this Administration and their possible ‘localism' approach to shutting down political speech on...

It was in Kiev, Ukraine, at the main railway station, and it was winter 1996, that I encountered a human monstrosity. I didn't actually encounter him; he was carried on a litter past me, over the heads of the teeming mobs milling through the station. To say the station was jampacked is to say that sardines have plenty of elbow-room in cans, and it being winter, even more so. Ukrainians tended to be small people, and hunger was abroad in the land, but their unwashed padding gave the impression of roly-poly tumbling balls of cloth and fur, and fierce ones...

This is something you will want to have and use! I still remember when AT&T charged me $1.50 to get a phone number from information! My compliments to Google! Just leave it up to Google to come up with something like this!

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I have been looking for ages and I have not been able t find Hubbie as a downloadable anywhere. Hubbie is the kind of game where they had the demo/preview but never actually released the game. I have looked on the internet and it comes up with some show named husband-not what I am looking for. I have been looking for hubbie for years-since I was like 10 and really would appritiate it if you could help oddball

Americans finding soaring food prices hard to stomach can battle back by growing their own food. [Click image for a larger version] Dean Fosdick Dean Fosdick Home vegetable gardens appear to be booming as a result of the twin movements to eat local and pinch pennies. At the Southeastern Flower Show in Atlanta this winter, D. Landreth Seed Co. of New Freedom, Pa., sold three to four times more seed packets than last year, says Barb Melera, president. "This is the first time I've ever heard people say, 'I can grow this more cheaply than I can buy it in...

Milestones: European leaders gathered in Washington for the G-20 summit are pushing for an end to American-style capitalism. But on Thursday, President Bush made it clear that ain't gonna happen on his watch.In a badly needed speech that seemed to bring the stock market back to life late in the day, the president delivered a sweeping, and eloquent, defense of free markets during a luncheon talk to the Manhattan Institute. Amid all the gloom and the revived enthusiasm for massive government intervention in the world economy, Bush's comments were a breath of fresh air. A few remarks in particular caught...

Lest you find yourself discouraged about voting or worse, still undecided, on this the last day before the national election, here are a few incentives for you to get out and make your vote count. 1. Free coffee at Starbucks. Starbucks locations nation-wide will be giving out free cups of regular coffee (tall, of course) to patrons who have voted. 2. Krispy Kreme is preparing special star-shaped Election Day donuts for each customer sporting an "I Voted" sticker. 3. And what Election Day would be complete without a free scoop of Ben & Jerry's ice cream ? Of course, good...

This has the latest voting video some just produced and at times some not yet shown. http://afreeamerican.com/

President Bush gets a lot of grief over the economic woes that have occurred under his watch, but now people can thank him for something spiffy: Free software. It comes courtesy of the Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge. In July, St. Paul software developer CodeWeavers came up with the gimmick to make its products available free for a day if any one of five positive (but seemingly unlikely at the time) things happened during Bush's last six months in office: gas drops to $2.79 a gallon, milk drops to $3.50 a gallon, U.S. jobs exceed 138 million, the Twin...