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---snip--- Bluebirds over, the white cliffs . . . It's all very well to react to the London terror bombing by quoting Churchill and praising the British stiff upper lip. I was tempted to quote Churchill myself, until I realized that everybody and his brother would be doing the same thing. Instead, I would like to quote a different politician -- famed nutbag appeaser and member of Parliament George Galloway. I do so, even though it gives wider dissemination to his crabbed and mistaken views than the British Press Association's Parliamentary News because I think it is important for Americans...

The left-wing Kumbaya crowd is quietly grooming a generation of pushovers in the public schools. At a time of war, when young Americans should be educated about this nation's resilience and steely resolve, educators are indoctrinating students with saccharine-sticky lessons on "non-violent conflict resolution" and "promoting constructive dialogues." Peaceniks are covering our kids from head to toe in emotional bubble wrap. The latest example of Hand-Holding 101 comes from the New York City public schools. According to Lauren Collins of The New Yorker magazine, the school system is introducing a new curriculum called "Operation Respect: Don't Laugh at Me" into...

Native Americans across the country -- including tribal leaders, academics and rank-and-file tribe members -- voiced anger and frustration Thursday that President Bush has responded to the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history with silence. Three days after 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed nine members of his Red Lake tribe before taking his own life, grief-stricken American Indians complained that the White House has offered little in the way of sympathy for the tribe situated in the uppermost region of Minnesota. "From all over the world we are getting letters of condolence, the Red Cross has come, but the so-called Great...

Religuous people are good people that are being led astray. They are systematically being manipulated to remove the power that they have to use their potent brains. It is easy to believe someone who says he has an alluring answer, an answer that cannot be logically disputed. The fundamental mechanics of religion are the same as a virus. It attacks those that are mentally weakened, and when they are young and suscepable to the concept of magic. Understanding of the beautiful complexity of the world is opening up to individuals that grasp the complex concepts. The universe seems to be...

<p>FREEDOM rEVOLUTION MOVEMENT IS A GROUP DEDICATED TO FREEDOM. no creed, color, race, sex, its all 1 race. we need eachother. there are no sides, we are all in this together!!!!</p> <p>FREEDOM. ITS TIME TO END THE WAY OUR WORLD IS RUN BY GOVERNMENTS DICTATING WHAT OUR POLICIES ARE. POWER TO THE PEACEFUL. ITS TIME TO STAND UP AND PUT AN END TO THE CORRUPTION AND GREED THE POWERS TO BE HAVE INSTILLED. WORLD REVOLUTION.ITS TIME TO TAKE BACK OUR PERSONAL FREEDOMS AND STOP THE WARS, RACISM, HATRED THAT HAS TAKEN OVER.NOTN IN OUR NAMES WILL GOVTS WAGE WAR, KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE OVER GREED, OIL, POWER. THE TIME IS NOW. STAND UP FOR YOUR PERSONAL FREEDOMS. NO MORE PERSONAL AGENDAS. NO MORE OPPRESSION. 1 EARTH, 1 HUMAN RACE. TAKE THE POWER BACK. POWER TO THE PEACEFUL! THE rEVOLUTION OF COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS STARTS NOW. EVOLUTION OR EXTINCTION! A NEW WORLD IS POSSIBLE AND WE PLEDGE TO MAKE IT REAL!</p>

Scientists think that our species, Homo sapiens, emerged about 100,000 years ago somewhere in Africa. Imagine that back at the time, scientists in another galaxy had been searching the cosmos for life and discovered our solar system and Earth. So they park their spaceship above the Rift Valley in Africa and gaze at the vast expanse of lush forests, plains teeming with wildebeest, zebras, elephants and gazelles and rivers filled with hippos, crocs and flamingoes. Those extragalactic scientists would no doubt notice small family groups of a two-legged, upright, furless ape but I doubt that anyone would point to them...

PARIS (Reuters) - France called for a new start to relations with the United States on Wednesday after a long chill over the Iraq war and said the countries' leaders should talk more often. Foreign Minister Michel Barnier made transatlantic relations a priority in a speech outlining his goals in 2005. His comments echoed overtures to Washington by President Jacques Chirac and followed signs that President Bush wants better ties. "I think 2005 should mark a new start in our relations, between the United States and France and between the United States and Europe," he told reporters gathered at the...

The morning after the Feb. 3 primaries, which vaulted Kerry into a virtual-ly insurmountable lead, the candidate was fuming over his missing hairbrush. He and his aides were riding in a van on the way to a Time magazine cover-photo shoot. Nicholson had left the hairbrush behind. "Sir, I don't have it," he said, after rummaging in the bags. "Marvin, f---!" Kerry said. The press secretary, David Wade, offered his brush. "I'm not using Wade's brush," the long-faced senator pouted. "Marvin, f---, it's my Time photo shoot." Nicholson was having a bad day. Breakfast had been late and rushed and...

On August 5, 2004, speaking to about 7,000 minority journalists at the "Unity 2004: Journalists of Color Conference", John Kerry reportedly said "I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror" than President Bush. While briefly reported by USA Today, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution, it was largely ignored by the press at the time the comment was made. John Tierney's commentary in The New York Times "Political Points" did award Kerry the "Kumbaya Prize" for the week based on the comment. (Kumbaya Prize, Runner-Up: Teresa Heinz Kerry, for telling...

Clergy members of many different faiths sing together at Riverside Church in New York during a Let Justice Roll rally Tuesday. (Photo by Harry DiOrio) The Rev. James Forbes, pastor of Riverside Church in New York, delivers a sermon at the Let Justice Roll rally. Riverside is a focal point of the revitalized religious progressive movement. (Photo by Harry DiOrio)   VALUES AND PHILANTHROPY Religious Left Says It's Ready for Major Political Push BY MARK O'KEEFE More Mark O'Keefe Stories NEW YORK -- With a full-page ad in the New York Times, a flashlight-illuminated protest on Broadway and a...

The subtitle of Michael Barone's useful book, Hard America, Soft America, is "Competition Vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future." I thought of the book yesterday while reading yesterday's Washington Post article on the latest trend in Soft America: Cuddling parties. Here's an excerpt (caution - read with an empty stomach): If Reid Mihalko is right, nearly all of us are desperate for someone, anyone, even someone we've just met, to hold us, rub our feet, stroke our hair. And because this is about healing, this someone might give us a long, soul-baring kiss. Then, our needs fulfilled,...

And that's the REAL reason the demonrats hate GWB: not only is he everything they hoped billyboy would be, he will be remembered for planting the seeds that grew into peace to the Middle East.....Washington was the Father of our country, and Lincoln freed the slaves, and GWB started the journey that will eventually bring peace to this troubled part of the world, and the rats hate him for it, so much so, that I wouldn't put ANYTHING past them.......The real democrats, who controlled the party when Tip was the Man, lost control to the clintonistas, and he was so...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (RNS) -- At their weekly choir rehearsal, the Messengers of Peace practice what they call "fun" music along with the Lutheran standards of "Lift High the Cross" and "Amazing Grace."Working through the syncopations, rhythms and languages of African and Spanish hymns, they bring a new tradition to the worship at Peace Lutheran Church every third Sunday: music from around the world. In fact, "Siyahamba," a South African piece known as "We Are Marching in the Light of God," has become such a favorite that it is no longer sung solely by the choir. Sometimes the congregation sings along,...

Armenian hacked to death at Partnership for Peace conference The Associated Press Published on: 02/20/04 BUDAPEST, Hungary -- An Armenian military officer attending a NATO Partnership for Peace program was hacked to death on Thursday morning with an ax and a knife by an Azerbaijani participant, police officials said. "We suspect Ramil S. of having committed murder with unusual cruelty," Budapest Police Maj. Valter Fulop told reporters. "We say 'unusual cruelty' because beside a number of knife wounds on his chest, the victim's head was practically severed from his body." The Armenian Defense Ministry identified the suspect as Lt. Ramil...

A couple of words we see frequently around the Forum are “Bushbot” and “Bushbasher.” I find them to be useless ad hominems that inevitably detract from whatever valid points the poster using them might be trying to make, or, more frequently, detract from said poster’s lack of any substantial points. By my understanding, a genuine “Bushbot” would be someone who would call the sky green if the President said so, and a true “Bushbasher” would call it purple if the President called it blue. While there are doubtless a few of each on FR, the vast, vast majority don’t fall...

I was posting in this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/963062/posts And I remebered suddenly what that "woman" said at that antiwar rally and a now i share this with you. Could you imagine a vegan, gay-and-lesbian, atheist, white-male free, socialist world??? It'd be very scary for me, indeed, and I'm not even a WASP!!! I this Commies' ultimate goal???

In pursuit of ethnic harmony Waukesha activists seek to end racism by 2006 By SCOTT WILLIAMSswilliams@journalsentinel.com Last Updated: July 30, 2003 Waukesha - Convinced that American racism played a role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Waukesha County activists are planning a major new effort to promote racial and ethnic harmony. Quotable We need to understand the world; we need to accept theworld. - Mary Baer,co-chairwoman of the Waukesha County Diversity Task Force The kickoff date: the second anniversary of the day of horror. A coalition that includes the YWCA of Waukesha, Waukesha School District and many other groups will...

So what is the difference between the General Interest section and The Smokey Backroom section of the FR? Has The Smokey Backroom section been established because the General Interest section has sort of turned into the Hobbit section? I just want to know so I know what sort of stuff to post in The Smokey Backroom section.

Church Leaders' Anti-War Message Fails in the Pews BY MARK O'KEEFE   The Rev. Robert Edgar holds a photo of an Iraqi Christian while arguing that children are the most innocent victims of the war against Iraq. (Photo courtesy of the National Council of Churches)  It has been called organized religion's most unified anti-war stance since the latter days of the Vietnam conflict. But public opinion polls show the spiritual movement opposing war in Iraq has had little impact on churchgoers, much less on the American public, both of which overwhelmingly support both the U.S.-led invasion and President Bush. When...

East Lansing, Mich. -- Eight people were arrested and police dispersed crowds with tear gas following Michigan State's loss to Texas in the NCAA tournament. Police dressed in riot gear and gas masks had mostly broken up the crowd downtown and reopened traffic in and out of Michigan State's campus. A crowd of about 2,000 had gathered at the university's administration building, where four cars were overturned, several small fires were set in bushes and large trash bins, and vending machines were damaged, Lt. Kevin Daley of the East Lansing Police Department said. The violence followed Michigan State's 85-76 loss...