http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/insane/ en-us Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:33:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285800/posts Washington -- President Barack Obama's landmark bill on energy and global warming squeaked through the House this week only after the White House made dozens of concessions to coal, manufacturing and other interests. As the battle moves to the Senate, Obama faces demands for more concessions, including to open the coastline to offshore oil and gas drilling. The Senate will take up issues that were glossed over or omitted from the House bill. Among them is giving the government sweeping new powers to overcome local objections and approve thousands of miles of new transmission lines to carry electricity to coastal... The Baltimore Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285800/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:33:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285539/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain issued a statement of support for resigning Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Saturday, saying she will play a leadership role in the Republican Party and in America. McCain made the comment a day after Palin stunned the political world by announcing she is stepping down. Palin was McCain's vice presidential running mate in last year's U.S. presidential campaign won by Democrat Barack Obama. "I have the greatest respect and affection for Sarah, Todd, and their family. I was deeply honored to have her as my running mate and believe she will continue to... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285539/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:58:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274110/posts The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House. PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside. "We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals." During an interview for CNBC at the... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274110/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:34:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2268296/posts PETA has taken a stand against one of the most popular tourist attractions in Seattle - the fish market at the Pike Place Market that tosses salmon. PETA heard that the American Veterinary Medical Association planned a Pike Place Fish Market demonstration at next month's convention at the convention center. MyNorthwest.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2268296/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:09:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261212/posts Capping 18 months of closed-door negotiations, the 49ers and Santa Clara unveiled a proposed stadium deal Friday that would require $114 million in public money — almost 50 percent less than the two sides had earlier considered to bring the storied NFL franchise to the South Bay. Under the proposed financial plan, the public contribution would come from a combination of redevelopment money, a new tax on area hotels and municipal utility funds to finance 12 percent of the $937 million cost for a new 68,500-seat stadium near Great America and the Santa Clara Convention Center. The stadium is now... San Jose Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261212/posts#comment Sat, 30 May 2009 15:11:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258657/posts LONDON(AFP) (AFP) – US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white, as he took part in a climate change symposium in London. The Nobel laureate in physics called for a "new revolution" in energy generation to cut greenhouse gas emissions. AFP via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258657/posts#comment Tue, 26 May 2009 23:08:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237165/posts Beverly Anderson is mad as hell. She just started to get tickets for parking in her own driveway. That's right. The District of Columbia is ticketing people who park their cars in their own driveways. ---- So what does the law say? "Any area between the property line and the building restriction line shall be considered as private property set aside and treated as public space under the care and maintenance of the property owner." ----------- Basically what that means is most property owners in the District don't own the land between their front door and the sidewalk, but they... WTOP.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237165/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:29:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221634/posts Speechless.... NEW York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller equated the Gray Lady to a PBS pledge drive, claiming readers have offered to donate money to keep the Times alive. ....The bombastic broadsheet editor went on to equate the keep-the-Times-alive movement to the cause of starving African refugees, saying, "Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause." Weasel Zippers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221634/posts#comment Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:05:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2200028/posts WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - A Canadian judge ruled Thursday that a man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow Greyhound bus passenger is not criminally responsible due to mental illness. The decision means Chinese immigrant Vince Li will be treated in a mental institution instead of going to prison. The family of victim Tim McLean dismissed the trial as a "rubber stamp" that allows Li to get away with murder. "A crime was still committed here, a murder still occurred," said Carol deDelley, McLean's mother. "There was nobody else on that bus holding a knife, slicing up my child." The... Breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2200028/posts#comment Thu, 5 Mar 2009 19:17:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199775/posts Rope jumping makes bungee jumping look completely sane and kinda cute. There's no flex: The whole "not dying" part is determined entirely by where you anchor the rope—and where you jump.Leave it to the nation who contrived Russian Roulette to come up with rope jumping. It looks totally simple and straight forward, until you just think for a second about the physics involved. If you jump straight down, you could dislocate some important part of your body, or worse, you could snap the rope and keep on falling. The key is to jump so that you swing across the... Gizmodo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199775/posts#comment Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:00:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2186054/posts If, like John Maynard Keynes, you believe that spending, any spending, will revive a flagging economy, the freshly minted, 1,000-page American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, calling for $504 billion in deficit-financed spending, is for you. Well, not quite. It seems that most of the money will not be spent very soon. About 30% won't hit the economy until 2011, and the balance is likely to be tied up in the procurement processes of the federal and state governments until well into 2010, and beyond. Besides, much of the spending will end up boosting other economies — subsidies for... Times Online (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2186054/posts#comment Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:27:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174212/posts The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have lead to a rise in public awareness that CO2 is not a pollutant and is not a significant greenhouse gas that is triggering runaway global warming. How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big... KUSI-San Diego http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174212/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:43:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173536/posts Gore: Earth in 'grave danger' Tom LoBianco (Contact) UPDATED: Former Vice President Al Gore told lawmakers Wednesday morning that the earth is in "grave danger" and that the nation must break its dependence on oil. Mr. Gore said Congress must pass a cap and trade bill and increase tax breaks for renewable energy sources before going before the U.N. climate change conference this December to negotiate new carbon-reduction benchmarks. "Climate change will be increasingly central to our foreign policy and national security, and it will be a focal point of this committee's efforts as well," said Sen. John Kerry, the... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173536/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:46:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174234/posts Former Vice President Al Gore brought a stark message to the Senate on Wednesday: A new climate change treaty is critical to continuing human life on Earth. The Nobel Peace Prize winner urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to push for a U.S.-brokered treaty in December in Copenhagen, Denmark, where the United Nations will host a climate change conference. Only the United States can lead such an effort, he said. “This is the one challenge that could completely end human civilization, and it is rushing at us with such speed and force,” said Gore, who won an Oscar for the... TOWNHALL.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174234/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:13:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173735/posts Several years ago, Will Smith starred as legendary boxer Muhammad Ali in a movie. It was a movie. Play acting. Pretend. Smith didn’t actually get into a ring and box 12 rounds with Mike Tyson for real. Now Mickey Rourke is winning awards for his role as professional wrestler Randy the Ram in the acclaimed movie The Wrestler. That’s the difference between boxing and pro wrestling. Rourke has signed to wrestle WWE superstar Chris Jericho at Wrestlemania 25 in Reliant Stadium on April 5. For real, or as real as pro wrestling can be. Rourke made the surprise announcement Sunday... houston chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173735/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:55:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171739/posts Former GOP presidential nominee John McCain on Thursday named fellow Arizona Senator Jon Kyl as a potential 2012 presidential candidate. Asked on CNN’s “Larry King Live” if he plans to support Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in the Republican presidential primaries, McCain said it would be “improper” to commit now because “I don’t know who’s running, for one thing, because, for example, my friend Jon Kyl, my colleague from Arizona.” McCain then trailed off, appearing as if he had accidentally floated Kyl’s name. Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171739/posts#comment Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:45:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169955/posts BY SHAILAGH MURRAYThe Washington Post WASHINGTON - A joke made its way around the Capitol Thursday: How do you know the 2008 election is really over? Because John McCain is causing trouble for Republicans again. Two and a half months removed from his defeat in the race for the presidency, colleagues say, McCain bears more resemblance to the unpredictable and frequently bipartisan colleague they have served with for decades then the man who ran an often scathing campaign against Barack Obama. In some instances, he's even carrying water for his former rival. . . . . . Sen. Lindsey Graham,... The Washington Post via AZ Central / The Arizona Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169955/posts#comment Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:43:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169856/posts (CNN) – Despite the post-election battle between Sarah Palin and John McCain's campaign advisors, the former Republican presidential candidate told CNN’s Larry King both members of the GOP ticket remain “very close.” McCain — who has been edging his way back into the spotlight Palin never quite left — dismissed questions over his running mate’s criticism of his campaign team. “Listen, I think the world of Governor Palin, her husband Todd, her family, I'm honored that she would run with me,” he said in an interview set to air Thursday at 9 pm ET. “And look, whenever there is a... CNN Political Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169856/posts#comment Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:10:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167349/posts Jim Hansen is the 'grandfather of climate change' and one of the world's leading climatologists. In this rare interview in New York, he explains why President Obama's administration is the last chance to avoid flooded cities, species extinction and climate catastropheRobin McKie, science editor The Observer, Sunday 18 January 2009 Article historyAlong one wall of Jim Hansen's wood-panelled office in upper Manhattan, the distinguished climatologist has pinned 10 A4-sized photographs of his three grandchildren: Sophie, Connor and Jake. They are the only personal items on display in an office otherwise dominated by stacks of manila folders, bundles of papers and... Guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167349/posts#comment Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:06:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2167197/posts It will be interesting to see if The New York Times runs negative stories on Obama's inauguration. They slammed President Bush in an Op-ed piece on the cost of his inauguration and then had the audacity to state that the Iraq war should have been cause for restraint in spending for the inauguration. The New York Times on the Bush inauguration. At the rate President Bush's supporters are giving money, his second inauguration threatens to stand out in the history books like the common folks' muddy boot prints on the White House furniture at Andrew Jackson's gala. The $40 million... It's a Kwazy Life http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2167197/posts#comment Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:00:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166454/posts HANNITY: Do you think she could be president one day? MCCAIN: Sure, sure. But I'd also like to point out that it's very early in this whole season. HANNITY: Are you thinking of running again? MCCAIN: I was -- no, no, no, but I -- you know, my political corpse is still warm, as you know, but I -- you know, there's going to be, I think, a spirited contest for the nomination of our party, and I think there are also other governors that will be competitive. People like Bobby Jindal and John Huntsman and Tim Pawlenty and Mark... Fox via Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166454/posts#comment Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:48:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156583/posts SAN DIEGO — A Mexican national with a history of immigration violations and arrests has been taken into custody as a suspect in a series of sexual assaults, authorities said Tuesday. Carlos Ceron Salazar, 30, was booked into jail Monday in San Diego on suspicion of assault with intention to commit rape, mayhem and sexual battery in connection with an attack in December 2006 on a woman jogging at Miramar Lake, San Diego police said. The woman told officers at the time that she was running about 12:30 p.m. when a man grabbed her around the neck and forced her... San Diego Union-Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156583/posts#comment Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:08:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155812/posts In her Jerusalem Post column, Caroline Glick mentions a piece of news we haven’t seen reported elsewhere: Both Iran and its Hamas proxy in Gaza have been busy this Christmas week showing Christendom just what they think of it. But no one seems to have noticed. On Tuesday, Hamas legislators marked the Christmas season by passing a Shari’a criminal code for the Palestinian Authority. Among other things, it legalizes crucifixion. Hamas’s endorsement of nailing enemies of Islam to crosses came at the same time it renewed its jihad. Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155812/posts#comment Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:29:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140958/posts Farmers Panic About a ‘Cow Tax’ By Kate Galbraith Should their greenhouse gases be taxed? (Photo: Steve Ruark for The New York Times) The comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency’s exploration of greenhouse gas regulation ended last Friday, with farmers lobbying furiously against the notion of a “cow tax” on methane, a potent greenhouse gas emitted by livestock. The New York Farm Bureau issued a statement last week (PDF) saying it feared that a tax could reach $175 per cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and upward of $20 for each hog. Such a tax would represent a... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140958/posts#comment Mon, 1 Dec 2008 19:21:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150053/posts A jury sentenced a Lakeview man to 10 years in prison for growing nearly 7,500 marijuana plants. Andrew Stever, 40, was sentenced on Monday after a three-day trial in the Federal District Court in Medford.Ten years is the mandatory minimum sentence for anyone convicted of growing 1,000 or more pot plants. In July 2007, officers from several local, state and federal agencies found 7,459 plants growing on Stever's Lakeview property, which bordered Forest Service land. Two men fled the scene, leaving behind personal property and three firearms, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Portland. Physical evidence and testimony linked... The Oregonian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150053/posts#comment Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:36:28 GMT