http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/heated-backroom/ en-us Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:31:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2102748/posts Sen. Dodd to visit Greater Bristol Chamber of Commerce Oct. 22 Special to the Press 10/09/2008 BRISTOL - With the $700 billion bailout of the financial industry packaged and delivered, U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., will be in town Oct. 22 to go over the details at the Greater Bristol Chamber of Commerce's Egg & Issues breakfast. Dodd, who had to cancel a similar engagement here a couple of weeks ago because of the financial/credit crisis confronting Congress, was a major player in forging the final measure as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, The breakfast will be Oct. 22... The Bristol Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2102748/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:31:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2102189/posts Friends This morning on Squawk box (financial network), four experts agreed. Equity talking heads agreed that equity market crash is factoring in the very high potential that Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Obama will be leading this nation in 28 days. These Washington boneheads, are idiots. "their words not mine" This scary development to think the world meltdown in the equity is caused by the election of a democrat congress and president. Buy bullets. Chicagofarmer CNBC financial TV news station http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2102189/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:59:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2095845/posts You need to click through and look at some of the pictures and what is called fashion nowadays. Freaks! Post the pics is not allowed as it is in flash.....would love to see some of the captions for these! theaustralian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2095845/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:14:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2089178/posts What if we had a way of attainng part of the speed of light, and then partially attracted the light to us magnetically, or with gases, somehow, or a type of gravity. Doesn't gravity of a celestial body depend upon the chemical make-up of the celestial body, and how is that in congruence with mass, change gravity. Light cannot escape a black hole, but gases can. Maybe on the flip side of some of these black holes, the gases that escape it, converge, and start a new nebulae. My head http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2089178/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:16:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2087328/posts Expositive facts regarding the VP candidates. One has germane bona fides. The other lies when he's not plagiarizing. Guess which is which. (the Palin details are from an email and I cannot immediately verify their provenance, which is why I'm posting this in the Backroom) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2087328/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:20:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2086586/posts That's right. They replaced all of their high-res, image files with lo-res image files that are 90% smaller than their originals. BUT, they have the gall to leave their original file sizes listed on their links. So, like instead of getting a 2 MB image file, you now get a 200K image file. In FactCheck's original story, posted, August 21, they made specific references to a few of my discoveries I made about the COLB forgery in an attempt to dismiss them out of hand: Among the most frequent objections we saw on forums, blogs and e-mails are: * No... FactCheck http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2086586/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:19:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2086929/posts Just when you thought that legislative, judicial, law-enforcement, media, and reproductive biases in favor of women were the epitome of double standards, there is new evidence that “life control” is increasingly shifting to the female domain: in four years, women also will rule men financially. Remember this the next time the waiter brings the check to your table, and your woman insists that YOU pay it — or worse, you acquiesce. By 2010, women will own all the power points of society. According to a new study by Allianz, a mammoth-sized financial-services firm, women in that year will control 60%... Men's News Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2086929/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:52:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2086341/posts The Truth Obama/Biden do not want you to know! From a life long gay democrat. I am writing this open letter to all Americans who want the truth about Barack Obama’s 1999 Crack Cocaine use, his gay sex encounters, his relationship and involvement in the murder of former Trinity United Christian Church Choir Director Donald Young, his use of Senator Joe Biden and Bidens son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden to have me arrested in an attempt to shut me, exposed before the election. I am willing and determined to defend myself against the Obama attacks and smears and expose... http://larrysinclairbarackobama.com/?p=261 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2086341/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:26:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2085717/posts VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Tuesday the theory of evolution was compatible with the Bible but planned no posthumous apology to Charles Darwin for the cold reception it gave him 150 years ago. Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican's culture minister, was speaking at the announcement of a Rome conference of scientists, theologians and philosophers to be held next March marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's "The Origin of Species". Christian churches were long hostile to Darwin because his theory conflicted with the literal biblical account of creation. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2085717/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:41:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2084840/posts What if Obama axes his current VP choice and replaces him with T.Boone Pickens? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2084840/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:55:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2078429/posts There are 5 contracts that I intend to examine to get a start on finding some kind of number to quantify Liberal Bias on Intrade. The first contract is 2008.PRES.CLINTON(H) which seems like it should have zero value. This gives a good glimpse at a baseline bias value. Taking into account the volume of the contract, bias might be expressed as Price * Volume of such a baseline contract. In this case it's 3.2 * 522834, but that's unnecessarily high because the volume is over the life of the contract. So I would use the volume since the convention ended,... Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2078429/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 20:40:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2074964/posts CHECK IT OUT...MYSPACE.COM/STATSNYLA, 'She's Our America'...but change appalachia, the second word, to alaska. Let me know what you think. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2074964/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:58:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2073388/posts "...The Weather Underground placed a bomb in the women’s bathroom in the Air Force wing of The Pentagon..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization) "...University Ethics Office...University Code of Conduct...Approved January 22, 2002 by the University Senates Conference...Introduction... This Code of Conduct establishes guidelines for professional conduct by those acting on behalf of the University including executive officers, faculty, staff, and other individuals employed by the University..." http://www.ethics.uillinois.edu/policies/code.cfm http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2073388/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:37:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2073379/posts "...Before he died Wednesday evening, death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop apologized to his victim's family, thanked America and urged people to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama..." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2073379/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:20:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2072232/posts YouTube is priceless. (R Rated) YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2072232/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 06:27:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2071833/posts Malaysian man gets nut stuck around penis: report Sun Aug 31, 2:25 AM ET KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - A Malaysian welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after an attempt to lengthen it before he gets engaged next week went embarrassingly wrong, a news report said Sunday. The nut got stuck on his penis following an erection, the Star newspaper said, forcing him to seek help at a hospital in southern Johor state. Staff from the Sultanah Aminah hospital had to drain some blood from the penis and cut away a top layer of skin before... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2071833/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:51:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2065658/posts I got these numbers off of olympic.org. After watching China win events when their athletes actually fell down (women's vault in gymnastics), I thought it would be useful to see what the numbers said from a historical perspective. I think the numbers speak for themselves. Gold Medals by Year 1992 USA=37; China=16 1996 USA=44; China=16 2000 USA=37; China=28 2004 USA=36; China=32 2008 (to date) USA=29; China=46 na http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2065658/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:49:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2065560/posts <p>DENVER (AP) _ The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday it will not appeal a federal judge's ruling that upheld the city's decision to limit protests during the Democratic National Convention to a fenced-in demonstration zone, and to end all marches more than a quarter-mile from the site.</p> DENVER (AP) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2065560/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:47:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2062324/posts Court grants injunction to stop woman cutting off man's penis A MAN was yesterday granted a court injunction to stop a woman trying to cut off his penis. Tony Goodchild was granted the domestic violence order against his former girlfriend. He told Darwin Magistrates Court the woman was trying to hunt him down and threatening to "cut his penis off''. The unusual application caused laughter in the courtroom. But the Northern Territory News reported Mr Goodchild -- who was shaking and carrying two backpacks during the hearing -- said he had been in hiding in the long grass from his... Australia Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2062324/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:28:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051794/posts Last week, radio talk-show host Michael Savage talked about autism: I’ll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, `Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.” I’m not an impartial observer here. My six-year-old son has high-functioning autism. He is exactly the... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051794/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:06:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2060695/posts Forgive the vanity post. I'm trying to resolve in my head, how the Clintons are going to eliminate Obama and come away from the Denver convention as the democRAT party nominee for POTUS. I have been pondering the possibilities and think that the key to this now is John Edwards. Remember.... deny, delay, destroy. The Clinton Modus Operandi Edwards also only suspended his campaign, and did not end it and release his delegates. Is this accurate? I believe it is. I'm sure that the Clintons have told Edwards that if his delegates vote for Obama, Edwards is going to jail... Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2060695/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:34:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2060607/posts As fans from all over the world converge on Memphis, Tennessee to celebrate "Elvis Week" it's a good time to remember and reflect. Photo of Graceland at Twilight taken by Aleksandra Rebic August 2007 I first went inside when they had just opened the house on the hill in Memphis. It was the summer of 1982. What had once been just a man and his talent had long since been elevated to legend, and legend had become a full-blown phenomenon. I never met him, never knew him, but there we were, my family and I, going to his house, not... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2060607/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:16:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2060319/posts Fist I would like to address a political issue. It seem to me that our politicians have outgrown the people they have sworn to help . When our country had two parties "R" & "D" it seemed to work as a counter balance between Ideologies. As Our system evolved the parties became more about power both their own and then there parties. It has grown so out of control they are willing to walk away from very important issues to the American people and then blame the other party for delaying or shelving important bills. Social security, health care and... mine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2060319/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:43:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059393/posts So how should Freepers feel about the Olympics? Should we write about it, post about it or covering it in any way? I feel that every American (including President Bush) that are in attendance at the Olympics are traitors to democracy and civilization. These commie bastards are our enemies. Each and every Chinese citizen (and I use that term citizen very euphemistically), each man, woman and child are enemies to the USA, the west, and basic civilization. They look at us as enemies and we should return the favor. Look where pretending that "they really don't mean it" got us... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059393/posts#comment Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:28:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2056484/posts http://www.angelfire.com/blog2/freereligion/aacult http://www.geocities.com/drugsandalcoholinfo/webpagesandpapers/insideaawebpagewebpage.htm http://www.moonmac.com/Cult_Called_AA.html http://www.aadeprogramming.org/reclaim/index_content_reclaim.html http://www.aadeprogramming.org/reclaim/orange-heresy.html http://www.bloomington.in.us/~lgthscac/alcoholicsanonymous.htm http://www.morerevealed.com/articles/kirton.jsp http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2056484/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:58:38 GMT