http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hippy/ en-us Sat, 5 Jul 2008 10:50:27 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041024/posts U.S. Forest Service officers pointed weapons at children and fired rubber bullets and pepper spray balls at Rainbow Family members while making arrests Thursday evening, according to witnesses. "They were so violent, like dogs," Robert Parker told reporter Deborah Stevens of the libertarian-oriented, Round Rock, Texas-based We the People Radio Network [www.wtprn.com] after the incident. "People yelled at them, 'You're shooting children,'" Parker said during an interview on the network's "Rule of Law Show." About 7,000 people have arrived at the gathering near Big Sandy in the Wind River Mountains for the annual Gathering of the Tribes, a seven-day event... The Casper Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041024/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 10:50:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993487/posts CHICAGO – Governor Rod R. Blagojevich announced today that the State of Illinois will participate in Earth Hour from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday. Earth Hour is a public awareness event created by World Wildlife Fund that encourages businesses and residents to join in turning off the lights for one hour on March 29th, 2008, to demonstrate that “individual action on a mass scale can help change our planet for the better.” More than 30 cities on six continents around the world are participating in Earth Hour. Chicago was chosen as the flagship Earth Hour city in the... illinois.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993487/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:13:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1820583/posts 420 is a symbol that connects marijuana smokers from all over the world to the cannabis culture. You may have seen it, read about it or heard it referred to by someone you know. Most commonly, it marks a time of day ( 4:20 ) or a date ( 4/20 ). On the date, April 20th, hundreds of thousands of Canadians will join millions of people around the world to gather, in private and in public, to celebrate the annual cannabis holiday. Of course, it is not an official holiday, yet. There are probably as many explanations of why April... Saskatchewan Drug War News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1820583/posts#comment Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:51:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817233/posts Hey, If you say anything, I stand up and turn around! With Legs like this I can pull a Beer Wagon, but the Other Horses Don't Like Me, Why is That? Don't F...! With Me! Look What Happened to I-Man! At My Inauguration Al Sharpton Will Pop Naked Out of a Cake and Eat Grits! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817233/posts#comment Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:32:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815159/posts So I have to do a project where I choose one of the events at the Conference on World Affairs @ C.U.- Boulder. I was hoping to get some help on a topic that wasn't infested with liberal propaganda. Any help would be great, or if anyone has been to a forum with a certain Panelists that you liked. Thanks so much. - Young Conservative surrounded by hippies!! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815159/posts#comment Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:11:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796355/posts Republicans, cops and event planners aren't the only ones getting ready for the 2008 Republican National Convention in the Twin Cities. The GOP's critics also are gearing up to greet the party, in style and otherwise. They're talking about mass marches, rock concerts and activities as simple as going to the St. Paul downtown library to get a book amid the hubbub. pioneer press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796355/posts#comment Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:15:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1781419/posts FROM A CATHOLIC HIPPY TO A BAPTIST PREACHER is our video for the week. This interview was made recently in Groton NY. The transition from bring a longhaired hippy to being accepted in Christ Jesus is really remarkable. Please inform your friends about the new video, and let us have your comments or better still post them on the Google site. What a great testimony. Berean Beacon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1781419/posts#comment Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:06:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616918/posts Veteran singer Neil Young has recorded an anti-war protest album on which he reportedly lashes out at George W Bush in a song called Impeach the President. The Canadian star has described Living with War as "metal folk protest". BBC News World Edition http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616918/posts#comment Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:32:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594606/posts Friends of U.S. peace activist Tom Fox, who was kidnapped and killed in Iraq, cited his stance against retribution on Saturday and called for the remembrance of all victims of violence around the world. Members of the Langley Hill Friends Meeting, a peace group in northern Virginia to which Fox belonged, read a statement he co-wrote in October 2004 in which he shunned violence, even to rescue him should he ever be kidnapped. "We reject violence to punish anyone who harms us," said Doug Smith, quoting Fox, in a statement read to reporters at the group's headquarters in McLean, Virginia.... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594606/posts#comment Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:09:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1592064/posts A judge in San Antonio has denied the request of a former Fort Sam Houston soldier to force the Army to release her as a conscientious objector. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled Friday that Pfc. Katherine Jashinski, 23, did not prove she has a firm, fixed and sincere objection to participating in war. The judge previously refused to block orders that shipped her to Fort Benning, Ga. There, Jashinski has refused to participate in weapons training in preparation for deployment to Afghanistan. She has been charged with "missing movement" and faces a court-martial, said J.E. McNeil, executive director of... San Antonio Express-News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1592064/posts#comment Wed, 8 Mar 2006 02:20:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568193/posts The assumption that America's campuses are impenetrable bastions of liberalism--where left-leaning faculty predominate, progressive student activism flourishes and conservatism is fiercely marginalized--still rules the day. But in reality, since the 1970s the conservative movement has become the dominant political force on many American campuses.... "We didn't have our act together," says Joshua Holland, a fair-trade and antiwar activist.... "We tried to keep things nonhierarchical and loosely structured, but at the end of the day... we weren't getting anything done." ...At the University of North Carolina senior Jessica Polk says students have long been "sick of what the left is doing--they... The Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568193/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:31:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563235/posts January 21, 2006 Berkeley, California My feminist friends think I'm nuts but I had to do it. As a divorced woman well into my fifties, I needed a little "help" getting back into the dating game. After much agonizing, I decided to get a little cosmetic surgery. Nothing really major, just a face, brow, and breast lift. The only problem, I didn't have much money and local doctors quoted me over $15,000.00 for the procedures. Luckily, my cousin Jean knew of a friend's aunt who had a face lift done in Argentina for a fraction of what she would have... The Peace Moonbeam Chonicles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563235/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:33:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1406703/posts Cassie Bernall - Yes, I believe in Jesus. Hippy News Media - CBS CNN Newsweek toombstones "Democracies Vote. Democrats Don't. Stop the filibuster." "Liberals are a minority for a reason. We think they're wrong." Hugh Hewitt for CU president. Return to foundation. Thank you, soldier. ConservativeImage http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1406703/posts#comment Thu, 19 May 2005 23:26:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316768/posts Biodynamic food is grown out of a spiritual understanding of nature A bakery is fighting plans for a phone mast because it claims radio waves will ruin its "cosmic bread". Artisan Bread say emissions from the antenna will disrupt "subtle forces" which help to make the loaves. The bakery plots planetary movements and uses a special calendar to work out the best time to make the bread. But it is claimed the shop in Whitstable, Kent, would lose its special licence because the mast is too close to the premises. Bakery owner Ingrid Greenfield, who supplies exclusive shops including... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316768/posts#comment Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:42:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310893/posts Since liberals are so quick to tell people how to spend their money by suggesting the RNC/President Bush not hold Inauguration, here's an alternate suggestion: Liberals planning to go to DC to disrupt the inauguration of President Bush should donate the expenses such a trip would have incurred during said "protest". After all, don't liberal tree huggers want to make the world a better place? Being in DC to embarrass our country and aid the enemy won't make a difference in terms of Bush being our leader for FOUR MORE YEARS! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310893/posts#comment Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:25:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1146022/posts On the same day the U.S. government announced that terrorist Jose Padilla sought to obtain nuclear materials and detonate a dirty nuclear weapon in the U.S., Sen. John Kerry said the key to U.S. security is to unilaterally stop building nuclear weapons. Touted as the major national security speech of his campaign so far, the presumptive Democrat nominee said that as his first order of business as president he will abandon plans to build new nuclear weapons, including “bunker-busting” nuclear weapons advocated by the Bush administration. Kerry's statement for a unilateral U.S. nuclear arms moratium also coincided with the U.N.... NewsMax Wires http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1146022/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jun 2004 07:06:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125257/posts The hoopla over a minor story like whether John Kerry threw medals or ribbons over a fence in 1971 misses a bigger point. Wasn't his action thoroughly despicable? Doing what he did is on par with burning an American flag, legal but reprehensible. The day before, Kerry had his chance to petition his government by speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He told of rapes, torture, and other war crimes. But being the center of American news wasn't enough for Kerry. He had to shock the public. By throwing medals and ribbons he thumbed his nose to the government... The American Mind http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125257/posts#comment Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:16:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121330/posts How bout a deal? I know I'm banned. I'll admit I'm a trole now if you will let me log back in on November 3 after Kerry hands Boy Goerge his butt and tell you what a bunch of losers you are just like the first selected Chimp President is a losers How bout it, losers? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121330/posts#comment Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:19:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/918366/posts It's not what we thought we were gonna be doing, a lot of the people's civil rights have been compromised, and we don't know what's going on. If I keep speaking my mind, will I be deported? Gaurdian Unlimited http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/918366/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2003 16:03:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/842723/posts <p>FRESNO, Calif.(AP) - Farmers and car dealers were on alert Thursday as a conference including environmental activists, some of whom have been associated with burning research labs, was set to begin in the agriculture-rich Central Valley.</p> <p>"Revolutionary Environmentalism: A Dialogue Between Activists and Academics," being held at California State University, Fresno, includes speakers who have fought for the environment by attacking research facilities and businesses.</p> AP Wire - Fresno Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/842723/posts#comment Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:49:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/830512/posts No Stallin' the Peace Movement by Barry Crimmins http://www.barrycrimmins.com January 25, 2003- Michael Kelly's January 22 Washington Post column, Marching With Stalinists, calls to mind the hogwash Joe McCarthy’s smear squad used to spoon-feed Walter Winchell. But unlike Winchell, who mostly just ruined the lives of people in show business, Kelly is hell-bent on discrediting citizens from every walk of life. In his Stalinist rant he dismisses everyone in the peace movement as traitors who have sided with the 9/11 terrorists. Then Kelly wonders how the American left could fail to embrace the noble cause of attacking Iraq. Gee, Mike,... Barry Crimmins http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/830512/posts#comment Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:34:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/826309/posts I'm posting this, cause I need some help from fellow FReepers. Only minutes ago I clicked on the above linked blog, which showed pctures of Anti-War protests in San Francisco (With color commentary by the writer of the blog ;) ). One thing that struck me about the protest is how, underlying it, was communism. It was at the heart of that protest. As it's in the heart of every so-called "peace protest". This guy can see it. So why can't the media? Or why WON'T the media? Well, you and I know why, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't... Right-Thinking.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/826309/posts#comment Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:16:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/768525/posts No surprises from hacks and doves by Howie Carr Sunday, October 13, 2002 It was amazing - four of the 12 members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation voted with President Bush on the Iraq military resolution. The fact is that our guys are lightweights. On windy days they carry rolls of dimes in their pockets to keep from blowing away. They still swoon when Bill Clinton walks into the room. Saddam Hussein? He may not be a nice guy, but he's no Newt Gingrich. All they are saying is give VX nerve gas a chance. Take Rep. Jim McGovern of... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/768525/posts#comment Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:09:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/692253/posts WORLD PEACE By Darren Morrison Since the sixties we have herd the slogans like “Give peace a chance”, “Wage Peace”, “Visualize world peace”, “Peace is possible”. Well the type of peace they want is not possible because of sin. The type of peace they are taking about is the absence of war. I am afraid to say we will not end war. In fact we live in a world that is torn by war and it will only get worse. The 90’s saw more war than any other decade before it and the 2000’s will be worse I predict. Mankind... Rocky Mountian Rattlesnake Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/692253/posts#comment Fri, 31 May 2002 03:22:06 GMT