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Under pressure from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (which regulates national banks), the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of Thrift Supervision, some national banks will soon be increasing minimum monthly credit card payments so they are closer to 4% rather than the current average of around 2%. Some major banks have already increased the minimum payments and others are about to follow suit.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070202/SPT02/302020028/1066 Can only link the story .... cannot post the material. Well worth the read to see the NFL is singling out a community and franchise with concern.

Here's a recent blog.....This is the writing of an obvious ignorant woman, so, to Helen Ford from Charleyne Stumpf....."education is pertinent in order for me to respect your opinion, you obviously have no education, therefore have not earned my respect." Helen Ford Says: January 22nd, 2007 at 9:43 am One suggestion, although not Politically Correct, place the adolescents who are on psych meds in an environment all their own. They obviously have trouble mixing in with the general population, who have enough to cope with as it is. Hi All, I realize not all of you have children, or young...

The relentless (and intellectually dishonest) Bush-43 bashing can arguably be said to have led to the “market-acceptability” of a film released to “Western” audiences depicting a sitting President’s assassination! This atavistic brand of populist politics has proven dangerous throughout history and should not be tolerated as acceptable political discourse within a free society. More, talk of impeaching Bush serves no purpose other than to incite the violent lunatic fringe comprised of neo-Nazis and other white-supremacist groups that currently dot the landscape of our Nations interior. It should be evident to sober observers that these home-grown fringe groups are actively seeking...

So the “Religion of Peace” has declared Jihad against the Pope and the Catholic Church because the Pope quoted a 14th century conversation (at a lecture he was giving in his native Germany) between a Christian leader and a Moslem leader during the Crusades and the siege of Constantinople. The 14th century Christian effectively told his contemporary that Mohammed has brought nothing but pain (evil) to the world by virtue of using war to proselytize Islam. In response to this statement from the Pope; the “Religion of Peace” has declared war on all-things Catholic. At the very least they DEMAND...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. border agents arrested a Marine deserter wanted for the last 40 years as he drove into California from Mexico, the Customs and Border Protection agency said on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT Officers checking 63-year-old Victor Aguirre's car and papers at the busy San Ysidro border crossing near San Diego discovered there was a felony warrant issued by the Marines outstanding against him since 1966, during the Vietnam War. Aguirre would likely be taken to Camp Pendleton, a Marine base north of San Diego, and be discharged without facing formal charges, the San Diego Union-Tribune quoted a Marine spokesman...

First, Newsweek pulled a Dan Rather on us, running a fabricated story just because they wanted it to be true. They told the world that an American guard at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center had ripped pages from a prisoner's Koran and flushed it down a toilet. As a result, innocent people died when practitioners of Islam rioted in protest in Afghanistan. Oops, said Newsweek, it seems we can't back up our story. Oh well, it's probably true; we just can't prove it. (Isn't it convenient for Newsweek that the media now have "Deep Throat" to talk about so...

Bond official downplays daughter's job with firm Ethics concerns arise after she sends e-mails Friday, September 15, 2006 By Robert Travis Scott Capital bureau BATON ROUGE -- The daughter of the State Bond Commission's top manager is employed as an intern with a major underwriter that recently won contracts to help handle more than $1.5 billion in business for the commission. Whitney Kling, the 22-year-old daughter of Bond Commission Director Whit Kling, signed e-mail correspondence to financial firms related to commission transactions, raising questions of whether her work violated the state Code of Ethics or created the appearance of an...

Was it Couric or CBS that made the big mistake?

Appearing after Burkha Murtha's comments to the President's WOT speech this afternoon, CNN Political Analyst Candy Crowley was surprisingly sharp in her fair and balanced analysis of the Democratic response to the speech. When asked by bathroom queen Kyra Phillips for her opinion on the speech and the Dem response, eye Candy said the Dems continue to have the problem of not having any credible response, nor a plan to fight terrorism. She repeated some of Burkha's angry comments, and said it showed that apart from angry rhetoric denouncing the President, the Dems have nothing to offer.

How many Democrats so far have been quoted on Al Jazeera TV standing against our nation? You say it is possible to support the troops in Iraq but not their mission? How is that possible? You refuse to identify the estate tax as its rightful name the death tax. Why? Democrats have stated that military generals and soldiers appose our President in Iraq. What percentage of the vote do you expect to receive from our military overseas after the mid term election if you accept their absentee ballot at all? You state you can keep America safe yet your party...

<p>HAVANA — Fidel Castro said in a statement Tuesday that he has lost more than 41 pounds since he had intestinal surgery but added that the "most critical moment" was behind him.</p> <p>The Cuban leader announced on July 31 that he was stepping aside as president to recover from the operation. He said he was temporarily turning over power to his 75-year-old brother Raul, the defense minister.</p>

NEW YORK -- A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying "weapons of math instruction." "Al-gebra is a problem for us," Gonzales said. "They desire solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off...

This is true Professor Wichman E-mail Claim: A Michigan professor sent an e-mail telling Muslim students to leave the country Status: True. Professor Wichman E-mail Hooray for Michigan State University (The Spartans) and Professor Wichman! Well, what do we have here. Looks like a small case of some people being able to dish it out, but not take it. Let's start at the top. The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman. Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association. The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the Danish...

Can it survive? In August the capital erupted with violence, death and flames. In September the northern borders are largely secure but the issue of the country as a whole is in doubt, and there is even talk of dividing the Republic into spheres of influence. Foreign fighters teamed with indigenous fighters are making the fall a "do or die" situation for this young Republic. American resolve is strong but fading over the years with the deaths of its fine young men. WHAT WILL SEPTEMBER BRING? Will the latest offensive crush the American spirit and end this improbable experiment bought...

Palestinian Terrorists Fire on Children, AP Obfuscates This is a great example of how appallingly corrupt the wire services have become in their reporting from Palestinian areas, relying on Palestinian journalists and editors who are doing the bidding of terrorist groups and covering up atrocities. Associated Press writer Ali Daraghmeh’s story is about a gang of masked terrorists who fired on a crowd of schoolchildren to enforce a “teacher’s strike,” wounding a 12-year old boy. Think about that. They used live fire against a crowd of children. But the Associated Press headline for the story is deliberately worded to be...

(XIN) Wal-Mart hires Clinton aide to improve image 2006-08-30 13:14 (New York) LOS ANGELES, Aug 30, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, is hiring an advisor to former president Bill Clinton to cope with mounting criticism, a newspaper report said on Wednesday. Under the deal, Leslie Dach officially joins the company's payroll this month as executive vice president of corporate affairs and government relations, reporting directly to Chief Executive H. Lee Scott. Dach will get at least 3 million U.S. dollars over the next two years to direct a rapid-response team to criticism, according...

Fox News journalist Steve Centanni's credibility is SHOT. He will forever be viewed as "the journalist that converted to Islam" to save his skin and then "unconverted" when he thought he was "safe", and as the "journalist" who praised the terrorists and their cause and told the west that they and Israel are the bad guys and admonished more reporters to “come to Gaza and report on the plight of the poor Palistinians”. The reality is his conversion was presented and viewed by MILLIONS of Muslims (along with the rest of us) world-wide. According to Islam, he has now become...

Monday, Aug 28 Couric Gets Bush For 1st 'Evening News' Katie Couric has landed an interview with President George W. Bush at the White House for the CBS primetime special "Five Years Later -- How Safe Are We?" The special will air from 10 to 11pm on Sept. 6. Excerpts from the interview will air on Couric's first evening newscast on Sept. 5 (and on the Early Show the next morning)...

R J Del ("Del")Vecchio insists that the VN war is very unusual in that the legends that grew up around it have far outstripped the facts. Hollywood has generally suggested to us that all VN vets are, in all probability, former dopeheads, mental cases, and maybe even baby-killers. Textbooks and treatises tell kids that the Viet Nam was was "the only war that America ever lost." Del will discuss otherwise, as he spends two hours showing photographs and talking about his experiences as an "embedded journalist" long before we ever actually heard the term. Do not expect some ex-grunt showing...

Press converence at White House on CNN. LOL. All the news chick could say was, "Wow!"

Updated daily. Woman with terminal cancer cycling across USA, online diary.

Someone on a mailing list I am on said the FBI has not issued an arrest warrant for UBL because there isn't enough evidence. I have pointed out that we have Bin Laden's confession as to his involvement- but was wondering what other hard evidence I could provide. Blair issued evidence in 2001 but I wasn't able to find articles past then. Of course, I haven't scoured the internet. Don't have time this morning. But, I figured some freepers might have something handy.

It appears that it is rigged (at least at this one website). One player backed by evidence of hand history has shown that he was dealt the same hand on the same table against another player in under 5 minutes losing a full house to a higher full house twice. The odds of this happening are 1 in 333 trillion. It appears they are juicing hands to encourage more betting and employing robot players to steal from real players. They made the mistake of giving the same hand to the same player so quickly indicating that he was one of...

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EVERY few years, California lawmakers take aim at term limits, which have swept out the Sacramento fossils who held office for decades, ushering in fresh faces and more minorities. Legislators hate term limits. They want to cling to six-figure jobs, full staffs, fat per diem expense accounts and personal prestige that few lawmakers could ever earn in private life. Journalists who cover politics hate term limits. They must cozy up to a new bunch of lawmakers every time the old bunch is forced out. They have to develop new sources and — horrors! — update their Rolodexes. Both the pols...

We Freepers have long and often speculated about the whereabouts of Saddam’s missing WMDs, and the frequently-opined location is “somewhere in the Bekaa Valley” in either Syria or Syrian-controlled Lebanon. The obvious reason to move them “somewhere” was to avoid detection in the face of the pending US invasion, in order to deny their existence and to preserve them for another day and another time. But why the Bekaa? Syria controlled the Bekaa, and Syria maintained strategic relationships with both Saddam and Iran. It seems unlikely that Saddam would have put his WMDs in the hands of Iran’s proxies directly,...

A top American scientist dubbed "the father of gene therapy" is facing two decades in prison after been convicted of molesting a colleague's daughter. William French Anderson, known to many in the competitive world of genetic research as "French", entered the annals of medicine in 1990 when he led a team that successfully implanted missing genes into the blood of a 3-year-old girl, enabling her recovery from a rare, hereditary disease. But yesterday the 69-year-old was found guilty of four counts of abuse towards the 10-year-old daughter of a research scientist who worked in his laboratory at the University of...

There are those on the left who have criticized President Bush for, among other things, what they characterize as an overly aggressive anti-terror policy that has helped recruit more terrorists. The renewed attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah over the past several weeks, following enormous concessions and withdrawal by Israel, and the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of Iran and Syria, make it plain that our response to fundamentalist Islamic terror, far from being too aggressive, has been much too restrained. I do not defend the decision to elevate Iraq above other threats in 2003, nor have I ever agreed with Secretary Rumsfeld's decision...

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AP reports that “120 Americans leave Lebanon by helicopter.” This means the U.S. will need approximately 209 days to evacuate all 25,000 Americans stranded in Lebanon. I did the calculation: 208 days is Mid-February of next year. After reading the headline and writing the above, I read in the report, “By the end of the week, the evacuation will proceed at a pace of 1,000 Americans a day.” This gives us 20-plus days to see the Americans evacuated. In comparison to Katrina, the numbers are not bad, not bad at all. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060718/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_evacuation

PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject: The speech that dare not be heard in Canada Reply with quote This is the speech that PM Harper gave to the UK Chamber of Commerce. I have not heard a speech of this quality and assertive 'Canadianess' since the days of John Diefenbaker and even then I think in many ways this one outshines them all. It is a remarkable statement of advocacy for the 'Dominion' and all it was once and, apparently might be again. Nevertheless, when one reads it, clearly, this speech could not be delivered in Canada...

A Dutch court refused Monday to ban a political party whose main goal is to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12. The judge said it was the voters' right to judge the appeal of political parties. The party has only three known members, one of whom was convicted of molesting an 11-year-old boy in 1987. Widely dubbed the "pedophile" party, it is unlikely ever to win a seat in parliament. The group would need around 60,000 votes, and pollsters estimate it would get fewer than 1,000. Opponents had asked The Hague District Court to bar the...

There is a pro-Israel rally in Brookline Massachusetts on Tuesday July 18th. It is in front of Kehillath Israel on Harvard Street. It is a huge synagogue. You can't miss it.

Sick of people ripping on Smoke

There is a picture on the home page of foxnews that shows staged artillary shells. Can anyone tell me what types of 155 shells they are by their Color code. I know the OD are HE, but what are the Orange and the pale green? Any help?

ACLU Thinks Ban Violates Rights... Indiana prison officials are being sued by inmates ... SURVEY Printed material that contains nudity or other sexual content is banned in prisons. Should that ban be overturned?

Defenders of the popular columnist and constitutional scholar Anne Coulter have recently dismissed charges of plagiarism put up against the brilliant author by reactionary activists. But can these charges be dismissed without further examination? In one striking bit of evidence, her detractors point out that her description of liberals as “confused cone-heads wallowing in their own fecklessness”, bears a striking resemblance to accusations made on Freerepublic.com that liberals are “fraudulent elitists submerged in congealed thinking.” The similarity is haunting. An operative at the Democratic National Committee, who owns a thesaurus, points out that when most persons picture liberals in their...

Well, I kind of thought the new Townhall.com would be just a shill site for the Salem radio hosts. Since Salem Radio bought the townhall.com site, it looks like it has become just that. But what do you all think? Now, don't get me wrong, I like all those hosts. But it seems townhall will be just an extension to the radio shows now. Also, hughhewitt.com is now all re-done and purty lookin'. Looks like Hewitt's former webmaster lost a job as his site is now an adjunct to the townhall site, too. So, who has visited the new site?

Washington D.C. ­– Conservative U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) issued the following statement regarding the suggestion of Don Goldwater, candidate for Arizona governor, to incarcerate illegal immigrants in forced labor camps: "I strongly denounce Don Goldwater’s deeply offensive suggestion that illegal immigrants should be incarcerated in concentration camps along the border, and pressed into forced labor. That Mr. Goldwater is either unaware of or indifferent to the loaded symbolism, injustice and un-Americanism of his “plan” to address the many serious issues caused by illegal immigration reveals his flaws as a candidate, and a stunning lack of respect for the basic...

...future negotiations over Jerusalem are bound to be yet more emtional, askew, and difficult than past ones.

I'm a well educated and pretty mush established in California. I would like to have my future partner to settle with me in California. I could not relocate any where. I love to live California. The person should be very truthful and hornus with me. No drinking Alcohol or Smoking. God fear personal. Respect to others. Simple mined personal. I'm looking for the Islamic religious partner only. If you are not, then don't borther me.

The following from a director with SW BELL in Mexico City. ( Bob Blaydon) I spent five years working in Mexico. I worked under a tourist visa for three months and could legally renew it for three more months. After that you were working illegally. I was technically illegal for three weeks waiting on the FM3 approval. During that six months our Mexican and US Attorneys were working to secure a permanent work visa called a FM3. It was in addition to my US passport that I had to show each time I entered and left the country. Barbara's was...

IF ANN COULTER didn't exist, someone would have to invent her. She's the perfect creature for the ethereal planet of Infotainment, a realm where fact hardly exists, compassion is a yawn, civility is a bore, and the national anthem is "another opening, another show." Coulter's comments criticizing the 9/11 widows were everywhere in the media recently. But it's sometimes hard to figure out whether she's a spoof segment on "The Daily Show," a sitcom character too caricatured to exist in the world that isn't composed of electrons dashing to and fro, or a latter-day Father Coughlin, who spreads hate like...

"Republican in the dictionary comes just after ‘reptile’ and just before ‘repugnant,’" actress Julia Roberts insightfully observed to the delight of the Radio City Music Hall crowd at the September 14 (2000) DNC fundraisier for Gore-Lieberman. That was just one of several liberal pro-Gore and anti-conservative pronouncements made by actors and actresses." * * * * * * * * * * * *

In a period of time where our country is splitting in the middle, our soldiers are fighting perhaps the most brutal evil of all time, the border is being opened and our national security is being compromised! We the people own this country, yet the silent majority, if there is one is too silent. How do we organize a national rally so that our gutless coward Senators and President can see that they are making the wrong decisions? How do we get coverage so that the march is broadcasted all over? How is it that the Communist/Socialist people, who are...

OK, this is a personal thread, and I would like some feedback about the Israeli Air Force. I got into it the other day in the chow hall with a guy who refused to believe the US Air Force is stronger than the Israeli Air Force. I understand the IAF uses their own radar systems and they are battle hardened, and yes, some of our pilots are trained by Israeli pilots. But one cannot refuse to admit that US pilots are is a league of their own as well. If anyone could shed some light on this for me it...

Well, it seems as if the rank and file elitist Country Club Republicans are flexing their muscles in the High Desert, not to mention down the hill, too, when it comes to who backs whom for the 59th assembly district race and why. When it comes to the two most likely frontrunners in the Victor Valley—encompassing Hesperia and Apple Valley—longtime GOP grass-roots crusader and people’s champion, Barry Hartz, versus government bureaucracy insider and recipient of Supervisor (San Bernardino County First District) Postmus’ back-scratching political favors, Anthony Adams, the battle lines have clearly been drawn and it’s easy to see, when...

Ok friends, It seems I've irked a Muslim in Britain with one of my postings somewhere. I received quite a scolding via e-mail from a gentleman who is certain the media distorts the truth about Islam, Muslims, etc... After reading through the rant, I thought it would be a great opportunity to see if I could actually have a dialog about the wonderful "Religion of Peace" (this, after reading about how I'll think differently once they come for me). Instead of a flame war with him, I'm going to actually see if he has any answers about some things in...