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These aren't just model planes! They are works of art! Incredible! Enjoy!

The first item to lasso my attention was the display of photographs and movie posters featuring cowgirls. In my opinion, those gals were more daring and courageous than the men, and for certain this came from having to prove their mettle in a man’s world. And they did it quite well.

Nobel Peace Prize honoree Mother Teresa, legendary actress Katharine Hepburn, Negro Leagues Baseball and Cowboys of the Silver Screen are among the subjects headlining the 2010 stamp program, the U.S. Postal Service....

Revelation that, as a teen employee of Baskin-Robbins, Barrack Obama gave away free ice cream to his friends was held to be a demonstration of “the type of generosity that drives this great man,” according to CNN reporter Ed Henry. “Even as a young man, when faced with the choice of serving corporate interests or benefiting the average citizen, Barrack Obama chose courageously and wisely,” Henry observed. “Your typical minimum wage worker would’ve been too scared to opt for social justice in such a situation. After all, getting caught could’ve meant getting fired.” “The pay-off to America today is a...

The new Mustang GT continues Fords powertrain offensive with an all-new 5.0-liter V-8, which uses advanced technology to deliver 412 horsepower and projected unsurpassed highway mileage of 25 mpg. Watch, Video: New 2011 Ford Mustang 5.0 V8

I am thinking about getting a double-barreled, side-by-side shotgun 12 gauge shotgun for personal protection. Any recommendations? The government where I live would never approve of a handgun for "personal protection". I also may on occasion us it for bird hunting.

Just for fun. Illustration Friday! :)

If all he wants for Christmas is you, then why not wrap yourself up tight in this one-of-a-kind dress made entirely of Christmas gift-wrap? That's right, there is only one like it the world, hand made by Britt Savage, a singer-song writer and fellow believer from Nashville, TN. This is the second paper dress ever made by Britt, the first one was the "IRS Dress" made from "the beautifully pink Child and Dependent Care 1040A forms plus some paler pink Individual tax forms." It became quite a sensation, earning Ms. Savage a unique place in an upcoming edition of Ripley's...

I'm not much for vanity posts, but I saw this while cruising around on Facebook today and found it very entertaining but simultaneously frustrating since it reflect the times in which we live. Kudos to Andrew Dunn for creating the rules, and have provided the Google cache page in case the Facebook page doesn't open. These are the rules for Obamanopoly, the overly complicated version of the free-market game Monopoly. 1. At any point in a classic unabridged Milton Bradley game of Monopoly, the Banker can say “Stimulus” and institute any or all of the additional rules so listed 2....

I had just checked and the kids were sound asleep, I tucked them in because it was getting cold. I threw another log into the fireplace. It was a calm and silent night, all was well and I could smell the ham we were going to have for dinner tomorrow. Suddenly I heard a strange noise. I rushed to a window and poked my head out to see if a bear or raccoon was eating the trash again. Nothing was there. That was strange... I thought I heard some kind of music. Our nearest neighbors are a mile away. All...

This guy is shooting a 50 CAL. Watch the dust when he fires. The target is a steel plate, 1000 yards away. You can hear the ping of the hit, and then the bullet comes back and hits the ground just in front of his position, then tumbles up hitting his earmuffs, knocking them off of his head. The footage is amazing. You can hear the bullet as it tumbles through the air on its course back toward the shooter. He's lucky it hit the dirt first. He is okay, and obviously very lucky. The bullet grazed his temple. What...

Proof that its not only today that they sell plasic crap that falls to bits before new year !

I like fishing just like anyone, but fishing on a frozen lake is not my idea of a good way to spend the afternoon. No sir, give me a fly rod and a nice river and I can fish all day long. Now these guys have found an interesting way to find out exactly where the fish in the lake are. I would not recommend it, but if you are from the extreme North, then I am sure you have either done it this way or at least contemplated it. Either way you really need to check out this video,...

Abe Kidd of Fort Worth has been fishing for as long as he can remember. But the 91-year-old retired banker never caught anything to compare with the whopper he and his wife hooked on a rod and reel one recent morning off a dock on Cedar Creek Lake. Kidd wasn’t sure what he had at the end of his line. "It was a dead hard pull," the fisherman said. "At first it didn’t move. I thought 'I either got a sure-enough fish or a turtle.’" As wife Ann, 92, and the couple’s son, Andy Kidd, looked on, Abe spent at...

What is surprising is that he is not afraid to go into the cage with predators and he treats them as if they were just dogs. Moreover, I would never put my child on the back of a big cat even if I was upbringing the animal myself.

Enough cool suggestions were made by you that I have decided to add them to some of my selections which didn’t make my first cut and post a second list of titles that will add flavor to your home library.

Now, I thought we wanted a world without color? I thought we wanted a world where "love" beat out misogyny, a world where people were "just people"? Yet we are still in an era where the Associated Press, with a serious tone and a straight face, reports the story of Tiger Woods daring to favor "white women" as paramours. And astonishingly it is Tiger that is portrayed as somehow in the wrong to like white women and the "black community" that somehow legitimately feels aggrieved? This after a presidential campaign where the Democrat's lead candidate was often portrayed as "not...

It was during the Emma Peel years that the show became a Cold War-themed spy hit, and forever set Steed and Mrs. Peel as the lasting image of the show.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin may or may not be a viable 2012 presidential candidate, but the bowling industry is probably hoping she is at least a better bowler than President Obama. Palin will be giving the keynote address at the International Bowl Expo 2010 in June of next year, the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America (BPAA) announced today. Dubbed the bowling industry's "premier international convention," the expo will take place between June 27 and July 1 at the Las Vegas Hilton and Las Vegas Convention Center. Palin's keynote speech is slated for the morning of June 30. The BPAA...

It's time again for us to show our Christmas spirit and give away some gifts to one of our readers. This year is an especially great year for the All American Christmas. This year's prize package includes: A 90 minute DVD titled "Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny," hosted by Newt and Callista Gingrich S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery's "Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years" Mark Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto" Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue: An American Life" An autographed copy of "Obama - Why Black America Should Have Doubts" An autographed copy of Michelle Malkin's "Culture...

The DMV now has yet another pro-gun source of information and cyberspace assembly area for gun owners. The Virginia Gun Owners Forum (VGOF) started up in March 2009 and its owner Rick Sandlin says the site already has "over 700 members strong with more than 21,000 forum posts . . . [and] provides a place for people within the Commonwealth of Virginia to conduct local firearm purchases, trades and sales."

Here's a Mauser model 1934 I just purchased. It's the nicest one I've ever seen, and I couldn't resist.

...Every time a new law is created, whatever problem they were trying to solve usually gets worse (and more expensive). But, rather than repealing or rewriting the buggy law, they just keep piling on more legalese and spending more money until the original problem finally goes away. But as we all know, in the process of writing all this massive, mindless legislation, they invariably create a brand new mess of problems. And of course, they now feel the need to write yet more laws to solve the new problems (that they caused), and the vicious circle continues. The bank failures,...

I got the following pictures in an e-mail. How would a revolver explode like this?

We need an observation network of Jihadi Training Camps in the USA. Our government has now classified terrorist acts as crimes. That invokes the right of citizen self defence agaist crimes. To defend ourselves we need information on threat, which our government, including Homeland Security, no longer provides to the people. We need to do that ourselves. A Congressional Hearing into the Issue has been derailed. We need to organize. Seeking Freepers in these locations who are interested in providing information: Jamaat ul-Fuqra camps (Also known as Muslims of America and Quranic Open University) 1. Deposit, NY 2. Hancock, NY...

I am looking for a cheap but nice video editing tool> Something I can use to make movies but do photo shop stuff with the movies. Changing faces, adding voices, that kind of thing. Any ideas or suggestions?

Shortly after Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan yelled “Aluhu Akbar!” (God is Great!), massacred 13 soldiers and wounded dozens of others at Ft. Hood last Thursday (Nov. 5), President Barack Hussein Obama warned Americans not to jump to any conclusions about the killer. A couple of days ago (Nov. 8), Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) announced his Homeland Security committee would conduct an investigation to see whether the Ft. Hood massacre is an Islamic terrorist incident. In Dubai as she lectured to United Arab Emirates members on Sunday, Janet Napolitano promised not to let any Ft. Hood massacre backlash fall on...

You have never seen anyone jump rope like this! ~~~~ VIDEO

The Russians are inferior, afraid and stupid. Scandinavia will conquer Russia one day. We will win. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaN45dqvrxQ

The point of this posting is to continue to systematically attack the notion that it is natural for two Koreas to exist and to continually eat away at all the justifications that South Koreans make in order to some how to ease their collective guilt as they lead their moderately wealthty lives as the other half of the nation continues to suffer (For more on how North Koreans continue to suffer see last week's issue of the New Yorker or what Professor Brad DeLong at UC Berkeley has noted to be last weeks "must read.") I do this under the...

Announcing the Uniform EnCounters GC3 Writing Competition Hey, everyone! As promised: We have a writing competition! As I wrote in my last post, have I got a deal for you! This blog's sister site, UniformEnCounters, is hosting a fundraiser/writing competition designed to benefit three good causes (GC3): wounded troops; soldier morale; and you, the writer. Here's what you do. Contest Rules 1. In 700 words or less, write an essay, story, or poem depicting a servicemember or members of the U.S. Armed Forces or their allies (i.e., Australia, Canada, etc.) 2. The subject matter can be any active duty scenario...

(Actual Title was too long...Here's the original ) One Woman Gives Man and Man's Best Friend a Chance At Redemption In Animal Planet's Pit Bulls And Parolees {snip}Pit bulls are eager to please, faithful and enthusiastic friends and pleasant with children according to credible canine organizations. Really, it's true. Yet, the public largely associates these dogs with fear, danger and unyielding aggression toward people. Pit bulls actually were once ranked among American's top five favorite pets and also known as the "nanny dog" for their gentleness with children. But they have fallen from grace. Now often associated with gang members,...

Forgive the vanity, but since Freepers are the most diverse group of people I know, I am looking for advice.

The world's smallest working model train set has been unveiled – measuring just 1/8th of an inch by 1/4 of an inch. At 1-35200 scale to the real thing, the five-carriage train travels around an oval route including ride through a tunnel. Powered by a standard two-inch-long rotating motor head and carved out of mouldable plastic, the model train cost Mr Smith just over £6 to make. "To get a sense of scale you have to remember that the River Branch project is being built to the scale of 1-220," Mr Smith added. "It has taken up two and a...

...or maybe not. Faced with increased violence, Britain deploys permanently armed police in London

HOW TO UPGRADE WINDOWS 7 BETA OR RC TO WINDOWS 7 RTM (RETAIL VERSION) You can’t upgrade directly from a pre-release version—at least, not without a quick and easy workaround. Here is that workaround...The ProblemWindows 7 checks whether or not the current version you are running is a pre-release copy, and prevents you from upgrading further. For reference purposes, this is the error you’ll see when you try and upgrade.The SolutionThe solution is to edit a file inside the Windows 7 DVD—which you’ll have to extract to the hard drive to proceed. If you are using an ISO image for...

What do you do to pass your precious free time? What are your passions. Hunt, Fish, taking pictures, gardening?

PLEASE HELP: I recently suffered a BSOD event on my other computer, which happens to be the one my children use for schoolwork, reports and the like - I had to re-install Windows XP, which solved the problem, but now nothing wants to work (internet, screen laggy and can't access old files). I can see a lot of what I had on the computer before this problem, but cannot access it and cannot connect to the internet at all now... I realize this may be an involved process, but could someone please help?

Yeah,, what could be better than bullets hitting stuff in slo mo to nice music. Oh well, one last post before bed. Libertas

We reported recently that the California Legislature passed AB 962. This bill would require anyone buying pistol ammo to provide drivers’ license #, address, and a thumbprint. And, because AB 962 requires all pistol ammo sales to be “face to face”, the law would effectively ban mail-order ammo sales in California. While AB 962 targets pistol ammo sales, it could also apply to any type of rifle ammo that has been used in pistols (including single-shots). That would include 22LR, 22 rimfire magnum, .223 Rem, 6BR, 30-30, .308 Winchester, and more. Opposition Efforts Gain Strength Right now, unless CA Governor...

When I was in school we used to have a shop teacher who had a wicked sense of humor. At the end of the year when the school was handing out scholastic award he had an award of his own to hand out. He called it the "Screw-up" award and it was given to the student with the lowest grade in each class. It was a piece of wood made to look like a trophy base with the front of it wood burned to say "Screw-up Award" and the trophy part consisted of a wood screw that was glued using...

I decided a wanted a new gun, but I didn't have much money to spend. I did a little research, and came across the Hi-Point 9mm. I came across some mixed reviews. There were those that said it jammed, was super ugly, and way too heavy. But, then there were those that said it was more accurate than most of the guns they owned, couldn't be easier to clean and maintain, and best of all, it came with a lifetime warranty, not questions asked, and it's made in the good old USA. Wait, I lied, the best part is the...

Many readers think I have been talking balderdash about the money supply. Specifically, that contraction of credit and M3 money in both the US and Europe signals double-dip trouble ahead. I have dabbled in this subject from time to time. The money and credit data gave a crystal clear warning in July 2008 (as I wrote in a blog at the time). It is worth looking at the charts in that blog. They could not have been uglier. I have returned to this theme over the last month — with slightly less conviction than a year ago, I must admit...

Feng Shui can help you nurture yourself and bring more prosperity into your life while you get back to work or school this fall. In honoring seasonal changes, you clear out old and bring in new energies which connect you to the natural world around you. Welcome in the new season and get organized, too, with these fall Feng Shui tips: Warm Up Your Environment: Bring some warm tones into the house by switching out pillows and throws. Get your heating system checked; clean the chimneys and fireplace; and stock up on yellow and orange vegetables in your kitchen.

Have any of you noticed an increasing volume to the earrings adorning many of our celebrities in recent times? It seems that the lower cut your dress, the bigger your earrings need to be. Looking into this fashion theory more closely however, the formula actually makes sense. Strapless dresses are great opportunities for letting your ears do the talking, without taking away from the wow factor of the dress. Shoestring straps also provide for a more paired back opportunity, but be careful of choosing either big earrings or an impressive necklace – not both. Wearing a combination of standout earrings...

Most of us spend more time in offices other than anywhere else; therefore we should be more careful when buying a new office clothes item. Let’s talk about the office suit in details. 1. Fabric Fabric is a very crucial when choosing your office wear. For instance, straight woollen skirt will help you to be in productive mood, rather than same skirt from satin. Try to buy less synthetics clothes for your corporate wear, especially fabrics that can be easily wrinkled. 2. Shape The most acceptable “shapes“ for the office wear are rectangular, reverse triangle and A - line. 3....

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Dear Heart GiovannaNicoletta, et al . . . It occurs to me I might should comment yet again but in a bit of a different way on a recurring feature of these fun threads . . . 1. I can't think of a single FREEPER I don't greatly care for and wouldn't be willing to die for, if God called me to do so. 2. Of course, for some of us, living with one another can be more difficult than dying for one another! LOL. However, on that score, too, I find the tableau of individual personalities hereon very...

The Sand Painting of Kseniya Simonova Posted by Moe Lane Sunday, September 20th To describe it is to do it a disservice: it must be watched to be appreciated. Like Andrew Malcolm, I found it amazing, and I think that you will too. Check URL

Enough people have compared the ‘new GM ads’ to 1980s Chrysler ads that GM had to issue a statement saying they have nothing in common. The General Motors marketing chief Bob Lutz said, GM Chairman Ed Whitacre “is the perfect choice to help re-introduce a damaged brand to a country of skeptical consumers.” “What we were looking for was a highly credible spokesperson who would be a new fresh face,” Lutz said, noting that Whitacre “is the new guy in town. He's tall, good looking, has impeccable white hair and has this nice soft Texas drawl and limps a little...