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I was in a resturaunt today and heard a song from either the sxties or seventies. the gist of the song was that as long as we are together we may not have much money... reminded me of different younger times. Any one have an idea what the name of the song could be. I remembered the words as I heard them but cant put it together now that I am not distracted.

Senator defends U.S. overthrow of Zelaya. DeMint, a conservative Republican, described Zelaya as a "dictator in the style of Chavez," referring to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Senator Jim DeMint on Thursday defended the toppling of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, said that now is still the rule of law in the Central American country. Zelaya was overthrown by a military coup, after ignoring an order from the supreme court, seeking to avoid a constitutional reform, which according to many Hondurans, was to allow for re-election. DeMint, a conservative Republican, Zelaya described as a "dictator in the style of Chavez," referring to...

Help! The following two MP3s outline a song that I just cannot place. My son (Jimi Hendrix, II) was forcing me to play bass and it popped up - I cannot for the life of me come up with a song title. Any help would be appreciated - I figure it'll take about a minute for someone to name it. Starting stopwatch now! ;-) I did two takes so you get two takes (Dialups be warned - they're ~ 1MB each ... Mystery_Song_1.mp3 Mystery_Song_1a.mp3

Vanity: Can anyone point me in the direction of a good website to search information on property rights for land courted property in Cape Cod and rights to rebuild a home regardless of neighbors view changing on coast.Looking for case law, articles.... I'd appreciate any help.Thanks

Just got the KINDLE reading tablet for Father's Day. I mentioned it to my wife and she bought it for me. Don't know if I want it. Can download newspapers, books etc. Is anyone using it, or should I return it ($300 we don't have to spend right now)?

Am I doing the right thing? I heard that doing this would make it more difficult for the Iranian government to crack down on internet use (albeit slightly, if not minimal; I guess there's strength in numbers, correct?). I apologize for the vanity post, just trying to help! :-)

The school I teach at in Japan just equipped the faculty room with ACER laptop computers ( each teacher gets his or her own to use at school ) . They seem to be well made and designed and the vice-principal , a computer geek , says they are very highly regarded in Japan . These laps came with XP Pro and are fast and sleek . I'm in the market for a new computer ( now using an 8 year old Fujitsu desktop with 256 memory which is obsolete , and the monitor just crapped out last week ....

Hello: A good friend of mine recently finalized a screenplay for Captain America that is receiving very high praise on both coasts from in and outside the industry. A former Marvel Studios staffer has called the story surprisingly original, creative, "epic", “engrossing,” “wonderful,” "very inspiring", "realistic", "really cool," "intense" and "as serious as a heart attack,” “creating ideal opportunities for dramatic content and visual appeal.” He said if he were still at Marvel doing coverage for the studios as a script reader for executives (read: filter), he'd highly recommended it for very serious consideration. The screenplay is intensely patriotic, but...

I just got rejected as a bartender mainly because the owner couldn't convince the girls to take me on and be trained and the owner for one reason didn't think I could handle it. I might be wrong, but if the owner approves isn't it the job of the employees to take me on irrespective of their own personal wishes? Another example of the employees run the business instead of the owner. I feel bitter because it was all going so smoothly and now this. He wanted to take me on, he approved, and now this.

Have a new Blackberry Bold bought specifically to keep up with email and favorite website FR. Anyone know how to view, say, the Latest Articles page without the sidebar knocking out the body of the page. As it loads you see the titles of the threads and body, but as it continues to load the sidebar knocks that off the page. Sorry, I'm new at this. Do I need to change Java script? Change the "Browsing Experience"? I don't really know what questions to ask. Thanks in advance for any advice. My freeping addiction needs to be fed if possible!

Having lost my job several months ago due to *downsizing*, I'm just wondering if anyone has had any experience with those credit counseling services.I've been using my savings, but this resource is now exhausted. I just got hired by another firm, but I'm a month behind in bills and won't get paid for another month.Anyone know anything useful about credit counselors, or which ones to stay away from?Thanks in advance for those leaving constructive messages!

Pleh.

(IsraelNN.com) United Nations Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) may have been involved in arresting Lebanese citizens suspected of spying for Israel. The story was reported Thursday by Spanish media and by Israel's Channel 10 news. Channel 10 obtained video footage in which a Spanish UNIFIL commander states that his troops worked with Lebanese troops to arrest alleged spies for Israel in primarily Shiite Muslim areas. The taped conversation allegedly took place two days ago

WASHINGTON, May 28, 2009 – A Marine who returned home from his second deployment from Iraq knew that “something was definitely wrong” with him. Marine Corps Sgt. Josh Hopper was wounded in Iraq, and later sought help for post-traumatic stress disorder. He now encourages other servicemembers to do the same. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “It really didn’t start setting in on me until I was back three or four months,” said Marine Corps Sgt. Josh Hopper, assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115 at Beaufort Marine Corps Air Station, N.C. “It probably took me about...

(Some will wonder why I posted this here..it's a sign of slipping conservative values.) I read an astounding thing. For every case of parents abusing children, there are nearly 20 cases of children abusing parents. Parental abuse by children can run the gambit of physical abuse, mental abuse, financial abuse and emotional abuse.

Statue of Our Lady, Help of Christians, with rhododendron blossoms, Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, USA, as posted on America Needs Fatima blog (The following is excerpted from the 24 May entry in Volume VIII of the 1983 Marian House edition of the English translation of Dom Prosper Guéranger's 'The Liturgical Year' by the Benedictines of Stanbrook.) "...Ever since our entrance upon the joys of the Pascal season....there has not been a single feast our blessed Lady to gladden our hearts by telling us of some mystery or glory of this august Queen....It would seem as though Holy Church wished to honour,...

A 15 year is facing a heart Transplant, while her family holds fast to their faith. Please, take a moment to check out their Blog.

I usually offer PC help, not ask, but... I having a problem reinstalling MS Office 2003. It's looking for MT561403.CAB, which doesn't appear to be on the install disk. I've seen copies online, but I have no idea how trustworthy any of those are. I haven't seen a solution.

I've gone to everything under accounts and I can't find it. Thanks, FA

A question for the mods. My wife (Conservative145) has tried to register on Freerepublic a couple of times, and she has never received her password, or any confirmation. We use the same IP and was wondering if that could be causing the problem. Any help would be appreciated.

After a year of dedicated use after a computer mishap described in this thread: The Computer is Broken. Seems to be Circling the Drain in a Loop. TECH PING LIST SUPERSTARS03.02.08 chickensoup http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1979332/posts#73 Having a similar problem but the boot on the XP Pro disk doesnt seem to help. got to the blue screen once and hit the 'R" key and it loaded but just sat there and hummed. so i started to type in chkdsk/r but it would only let me type in "c".... It is now back to circling the drain to the white on black screen that...

D/FW AIRPORT — Alan Burks invited himself on this flight, the one that took off in the early afternoon Wednesday bound for the Middle East. On board the American Airlines 767 were 2 tons of supplies from the nonprofit he started in memory of his son Pete, an Army platoon leader from Dallas killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2007. No way would Burks miss the chance to go and mingle with the troops. He took Pete’s younger brother, Zac, with him to share in the experience. "He’s more than ready," Zac Burks said. "This has been his...

I've have been assigned by my college English teacher to write a 4 page essay on the Ethics of Buying, following MLA standards. I know this is something really dumb and already rigged, but I would like to know how to approach writing such a thing, keep it conservative, and still not royally tick off my liberal English teacher. Any sources that could be recommended would be appreciated as well.

Please share your thoughts with me after reading the following: Background: Private co-ed Christian school. 65 students in this grade level. Student elections for Student Council. Positions on the Council: Two Officers & unknown number available for specific events. 11 students running - all girls. All students required to make one poster and give one short speech to the 8th grade class. FFw to speech & election day. All students presented their speeches. Prior to students returning to their respective classrooms to cast their votes, the students were told that the ballots would have all 11 girls' names listed. Each...

Here's the problem. I defragmented, as usual, and restarted my computer. For some reason, my widescreen monitor went back to it's original "stretched" form. I cannot remember how I fixed this problem when I first installed the monitor, just remember it was an SOB to fix and a fluke that I got it right. Please, any advise or fix would be greatly appreciated.

My eighteen month old great-grandson Alfonso has undergone open heart surgery today for a congenital heart defect. There were complications. He is in critical condition in a Mexico City hospital. His parents are natually distraught.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States is working to rush assistance to Mexico as it fights violent drug cartels, including equipment to help authorities track the narcotics mafia, according to the top US military officer. "We're all working very hard to move the capabilities that are desirable to Mexico as quickly as we can," Admiral Mike Mullen told reporters by phone from his aircraft after holding talks in Mexico. During his meetings with the country's military leadership, Mullen said he discussed how Washington could help in the battle against the powerful cartels, citing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) as a...

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To all of the patriot Michiganders...I would like to schedule a Tea Party event here in Michigan but would like some suggestions as to location, speakers, musicians (it's too bad Ted Nugent no longer lives in Jackson!)etc. If anyone can offer any help, please email me. Of all states, we need this party. We are a state of socialists!!!

I can't find the help page. Where is it or is it at all? I have an illustration I want to post. It's not very reverent to obambi so I'll check the rules again.

After 7 weeks of unemployment, I started a new job last week. I have an appointment with human resources to fill out my benefits paperwork tomorrow. I've studied the 403b plans in the handbook and am having trouble understanding what it all means. The plans include the usual mutual funds, which I don't want to put my hard earned money into. There is also a money market fund available, the Oppenheimer Cash Reserves N Fund, which states it is based on a 3-month T-bill. I read on the internet that even T-bills are risky now. Should I forget about enrolling...

I download some music this morning and when I removed my USB connector to my Sony MP3 player my computer went dead. I tried a hard boot, but the computer is not booting up. I am assuming that "she's dead, jim", right? The fan won't start and my zip drive has conniption fits when I start try to start her up. My CD rom won't open either. Is there any way I can recover the contents of my hard drive? How do I dispose of the computer and get rid of the personal information. Is this a good computer?

Obama offers no housing fix, little hope February 13, 2009 BY STEVE HUNTLEY The nearly $800 billion stimulus bill will be signed, sealed and delivered in a day or so. Even those of us with doubts about its priorities, its big spending and its non-stimulus agenda of liberal goals hope it will deliver a much-needed jolt to our staggering economy. We're all in this leaky boat together. Still, doubts about the bill's effectiveness are compounded by the slowness of the Obama administration, like the Bush White House before it, to address the source of this economic calamity, the housing collapse....

Good evening everyone, and welcome to the new week's thread.Our new president will treat us to another exhorting, scolding speech Monday night as the Senate prepares to vote on the Depression and Mind-Boggling Deficit Act of 2009.Meanwhile Sec Treasury Timothy Geithner, AKA The Treasury's Own Tax Cheat, will unveil yet another bank bailout Tuesday...but that could change...stay tuned.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2009 – With April 15 looming, the Defense Department is on call to take the sting out of tax return preparation for servicemembers. “Each of the legal offices provides some form of tax preparation assistance,” Air Force Lt. Col. Don Svendsen, executive director for the Armed Forces Tax Council, said. “People that are doing the return preparation have been trained [and] certified by the [Internal Revenue Service]. “Usually we can prepare the return right there on the spot,” he added. To make sure that a return can be finished in one visit to a tax center,...

Good evening everyone.Statism continues to run amok in Washington.The O administration is set to soon unveil a Big Bank Bank Bailout...more debt onto debt for as far as we can see.But a ray of hope: there are hints that some Dems as well as the Rs in the Senate have qualms about the Depression & Huge Deficit Act of 2009 which passed the House last week.So we shall see.Meanwhile we can have a lottery: how many Executive Orders will the new president sign THIS week??

Anyone have any experience with this nasty piece of spyware. I had not even heard about it, until this morning when I put it on my neighbor's computer. It would have been bad enough if I had done it to my own, it's horribe I did it to his...so...what's the best way of ridding myself of this evil interloper. And for once, I'm using that term about something other than Obama! Thanks!

Has anyone ever gotten an EZ Pass bill with charges that belong to someone else? Did anyone ever return an EZ Pass unit--the transponder--and find that it turned up still in use by someone else, charging you for their travel?

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's economic stimulus legislation is headed for the Senate after a surprisingly partisan vote in the House in which Republicans united in opposition and 11 mostly conservative Democrats defected. ... During Senate debate next week, the measure is expected to pick up at least some GOP support. But Obama's hopes of changing Washington's partisan culture went unmet despite the popular president's separate high-profile meetings on Capitol Hill on Tuesday with House and Senate Republicans.

Does anyone have any suggestions for freeware to clean up harddrives especially getting rid of jpgs from an employee surfing too much.

When I see the $170 million Inaugural celebrations, I am reminded of “Belshazzar the king of Babylon. [He] made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand. While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God...

i have an unsecured wireless network in my apartment. I recently was on my laptop and the touchpad mouse was disabled saying it had been disabled because a new pointing device had been added to my computer, that was weird because i had not plugged a mouse into the laptop. After that I notice a file i had never seen before on my desktop and I have no idea how it got there. so i checked the properties of the file and it said it had been last accessed at a time that i was not even home, and no...

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Hey Freepers on Las Cruces/El Paso area: I'm on PCS orders from CA back to AR and stopping in your area for the night. My honey and I would like some suggestions on some local good eats! NO CHAIN RESTAURANTS!We would like either a good steakhouse or the best Mexican food restaurant. Thank you so much!

My middle school son has a project due which requires a survey about gun ownership. He has a survey up here: Survey MonkeyThere are only 3 or 4 questions. You have to have a legit email address in case the teacher checks the link, but you can certainly use a fake name. If you have a throwaway email and would like to help him out we would greatly appreciate it. He needs a dozen or so more responses and has run out of people to ask,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2153868/posts My SIL bought a used Volvo that was out of warranty. The Volvo service department told her that her onboard computer software was out of date and that she would have to pay $175 to upgrade. On the above thread, particularly upon the advice/counsel of RSalesman, she contacted the dealership manager and got 100% of her money back. She wanted me to thank you guys for your help.

I had a document I had written pages and pages of material on. I plugged in a disk to save it, and made the horrible mistake of sending the OLD version over and replacing the NEW version. I am DESPERATE to get this work back. Does anyone know how to recover an old saved version? I am reasonably certain system restore will not work, that's not what it was designed to do. I have not saved over it in any other way, and I recall some tech geeks telling me it was possible to access old saved versions of a...

Ill child has Christmas wish -- cards, and plenty of them BY TOM KNAPP, Intelligencer Journal Staff Hannah Garman wants to celebrate Christmas in a very big way. But the plucky 4-year-old -- she will turn 5 in January -- was diagnosed in late October with glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive brain tumor, in her cerebellum. The prognosis, according to her grandmother, Shirley Garman, is not good. "The tumor is very aggressive," Mrs. Garman said. "It is not something they can take away." The Garman family is working overtime not to dwell on grim reality. Mrs. Garman said they'd rather focus...

I am not computer literate when it comes to repairing/restoring computer items so here goes: I have a Dell 2350 computer and this morning, I put two CD's in and nothing happened. I checked under My system information and did not see the D drive for the CD-Rom. I have the Drivers and Utilities CD for my computer but am not sure if it will ask me questions or just install everything. Other than that, the computer is working fine. How do I get this working or re-installed? There are NO instructions that came with this computer with regard to...