http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/lunatics/ en-us Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:30:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400934/posts Some recent events should have come as no surprise to me, having spent decades observing the illogical workings of the liberal mind. First has been the strange reaction to Climategate, from an administration that boldly proclaimed its intention to demand critical thinking in our science and to base policies on the best scientific thought available. Their reaction to the news that political correctness has infected the science of man-made global warming has been to spin the facts and then to deny the implications of the false data and the burying of any study that did not support the global warming... From Sea To Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400934/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:30:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2378382/posts And David Plouffe said Obama considered this guy for Vice President Hot AirPundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2378382/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:28:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377614/posts PHOENIX — A young Iraqi woman whose father allegedly hit her with his car because she had become too Westernized died from her injuries Monday after lying in a coma for nearly two weeks. Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20, underwent spinal surgery and had been in a hospital since Oct. 20, when police say her father ran down her and her boyfriend's mother with his Jeep as the women were walking across a parking lot in the west Phoenix suburb of Peoria. The other woman, Amal Khalaf, is expected to survive. Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, fled after the attack but was... Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377614/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:25:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374344/posts NEW YORK (AP) - Sting isn't a religious man, but he says President Barack Obama might be a divine answer to the world's problems. In an interview, he jokes that Obama was "sent from God," but in a serious tone, he also said that Obama was the best person to handle the world's "mess." Starpulse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374344/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:29:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346558/posts Jeffrey Alan Wagner, doesn’t have a traditional resume for a politician. He works as a baggage handler for Delta Airlines at the airport and runs a video-production company. The Loring Park resident attended his first city council meeting last Friday and says he initially jumped into the race on a lark after drinking too much alcohol on the day of the filing deadline. “Do you have to be able to spell Minneapolis to be a city council member?” he laughs. Wagner has not raised any money or sought any political endorsements. But the 42-year old insists he is running a... The Minnesota Independent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346558/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:11:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249729/posts Obama/Waxman push $3,100 per-family tax by Memorial Day! From the Desk of: Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance Our sources are telling me that President Obama and Rep. Henry Waxman are pushing for a key vote on the Carbon Tax BEFORE Memorial Day -- a tax that studies show will cost each family $3,100 each and every year. Last week, Obama met behind closed doors with House Democrats to pressure them to pass the Carbon Tax. Now, Waxman is even contemplating skipping the Subcommittee hearing on the $2 trillion Carbon Cap and Trade Tax and fast-tracking this new tax straight to... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249729/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 02:31:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2219282/posts A church in Ashland, Ore., can import and brew a hallucinogenic tea for its religious services, under a federal court ruling issued March 19. Judge Owen M. Panner issued a permanent injunction that bars the federal government from penalizing or prohibiting the Church of the Holy Light of the Queen from sacramental use of "Daime" tea. The church, which blends Christian and Brazilian indigenous beliefs, uses tea brewed from the ayahuasca plant in their services. The tea contains trace amounts of the chemical dimethyltryptamine, or DMT. According to the church's lawsuit, the tea is the central ritual and sacrament of... beliefnet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2219282/posts#comment Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:34:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209973/posts In today's Huffington Post is Joseph A. Palermo's "Cheney, Rove, and Fleischer and the Importance of Net Neutrality." Net neutrality, you see, is yet another way the Left hopes to silence their opposition -- and Palermo calls on Obama's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to do exactly that. I guess he gets partial credit for honesty. And if this latest example of the Left's rush to suppression via Obama's FCC makes you think of the old Censorship Doctrine or any of the new ones -- "localism," "diversity in media ownership" and serving the "public interest" -- well, it should. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209973/posts#comment Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:03:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207009/posts EVEN in a culture in which sex toys are a booming business and Oprah Winfrey discusses living your best life in the bedroom, a coed live-in commune dedicated to the female orgasm hovers at the extremes. The founder of the One Taste Urban Retreat Center, Nicole Daedone, sees herself as leading “the slow-sex movement,” * * * New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207009/posts#comment Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:11:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133945/posts PETA, the animal rights activist group, has targeted the DS and Wii franchise, Cooking Mama, in its latest campaign against animal cruelty. The groups browser-based game, Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals, features a likeness of the character brandishing a kitchen knife, plucking the feathers and taking out the giblets from a turkey, presumably in preparation for the US holiday, Thanksgiving, of which it is the traditional meal. "Why is PETA picking on poor Mama?" the company explained in a statement. "Because the games are so heavy on dishes made from dead animals that the only things missing are the blood... Gamesindustry.biz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133945/posts#comment Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:51:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2083621/posts DEMOCRATS: MoveOn.org claims to have “bought” your political party. What are you going to do about it? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2083621/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:01:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2079482/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, there is no consensus outside the United States that Islamist militants from al Qaeda were responsible, according to an international poll published Wednesday. http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=32140442&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2079482/posts#comment Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:31:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071411/posts Ramsey County sheriff's deputies found weapons and devices to disable buses - among other items - in searches in the Twin Cities last night and today. Authorities said the items came from "key members of the RNC Welcoming Committee," a self-described anarchist group. Five people have been arrested and four properties have been searched, according to the sheriff's office. At 8 a.m. today, the sheriff's office executed search warrants at three Minneapolis homes - 2301 23rd Ave. S., 3500 Harriet Ave. and 3240 17th Ave. S. The FBI, Minneapolis police and the Hennepin County sheriff's office assisted them. "The 'Welcoming... pioneer depressed http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071411/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:35:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053862/posts Saudi Arabia's religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said on Wednesday. Othman al-Othman, head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Riyadh, known as the Muttawa, told the Saudi edition of al-Hayat daily that the commission has started enforcing an old religious edict. He said the commission was implementing a decision taken a month ago by the acting governor of the capital,... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053862/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:49:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020781/posts Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings A group in Santa Fe says the city is discriminating against them because they say that they're allergic to the wireless Internet signal. And now they want Wi-Fi banned from public buildings. Arthur Firstenberg says he is highly sensitive to certain types of electric fields, including wireless Internet and cell phones. "I get chest pain and it doesn't go away right away," he said. Firstenberg and dozens of other electro-sensitive people in Santa Fe claim that putting up Wi-Fi in public places is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The city... KOB.com news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020781/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 18:36:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980687/posts A major airline is under fire from environmentalists for flying an aircraft across the Atlantic with only five passengers on board. American Airlines has been accused of reckless behaviour It led to American Airlines being accused of reckless behaviour by green lobby groups. The latest “eco- scandal” flight took place on February 9 after American was forced to cancel one of its four daily services from Chicago to London. While it was able to find places for nearly all the passengers on the fully-booked flight, five still had to be accommodated. Those who did fly were upgraded to the business... London Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980687/posts#comment Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:28:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961522/posts Rasmussen Reports is looking at the impact of Michael Bloomberg and Ron Paul as potential third party or independent candidates in the 2008 elections. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that roughly 15% of voters would currently vote for one of these two candidates in general election match-ups. When the two candidates are mentioned as independent options in match-ups between Mitt Romney and the two Democratic frontrunners, Paul and Bloomberg attract roughly the same level of support. When John McCain is mentioned as the Republican candidate in a match-up with Barack Obama, Ron Paul earns 11% of the... ThirdPartyWatch Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961522/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:21:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958994/posts In May 2001, members of a Northwest group used arson to advance its agenda. They set fire to the Center for Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington because they believed one of the researchers was genetically engineering poplar trees. He wasn't. The arsonists destroyed plants and the research of several people other than the man whose work they targeted. None of their goals was served by the violence. "Misguided" is the word, I believe. I'd even call them ecoterrorists. The crime is back in the news because a woman accused of acting as a lookout for the Earth Liberation... Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958994/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:17:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/1927093/posts <snip>Paul's electoral success has befuddled Democrats. They say he routinely opposes bills that would help his sprawling 14th Congressional District, a mostly rural swath of coast that stretches from the northern outskirts of Corpus Christi to Galveston.Last year, Republican appropriators zeroed out millions of dollars in funding for several dredging and port improvement projects in the district - a casualty, Democrats say, of Paul's opposition to government pork even if it benefits his own constituents.Democrat Shane Sklar, a rancher who lost to Paul last year, said the congressman's supporters either didn't believe or didn't care that his votes had made... Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/1927093/posts#comment Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:53:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921350/posts Rosie O’Donnell, who abruptly left “The View” on ABC last spring after drawing attention and ratings for her opinions on everything from the Iraq war to her co-hosts, is in serious discussions to return to television atop a new soapbox: a prime-time show on the cable news channel MSNBC, according to executives on both sides of the negotiations who have been briefed directly. New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921350/posts#comment Mon, 5 Nov 2007 22:14:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900698/posts Tonight at Daily Kos, the new mainstream voice of the Democratic Party, they’ve found a new angle from which to attack General Petraeus: Hey, MoveOn! Petraeus Wore Fraud Medal At Testimony.Examining General Petraeus’s medals, his official bios and then comparing three reports of events on 3/30/2003 in Najaf, Iraq - two by prize-winning embedded journalists and one understood to be by Army personnel (which document this diarist will produce to a responsible party at any time) - this diarist cannot conclude other than that General David Petraeus wore a medal for combat valor in his testimony before Congress that was... Via OrbusMax.com - Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900698/posts#comment Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:31:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897084/posts Something truly shocking happened on Friday's "Real Time" on HBO. Host Bill Maher called 9/11 truthers "lunatics," and demanded they stop requesting him "raise this ridiculous topic on this show and start asking [their] doctor if Paxil is right for [them]."I kid you not.During Maher's "New Rules" segment, he actually stated video available here, (relevant section begins at 1:46): "Crazy people who still think the government brought down the Twin Towers in a controlled explosion have to stop pretending that I'm the one that's being naïve."The full transcript of this astonishing "New Rule" follows: New Rule: Crazy people who... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897084/posts#comment Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:19:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877534/posts Moonbats. Lunatics. Boobs. Bong smokers. Left-bots. Those insults and more are being heaped on the populace of Telluride after the Telluride Town Council became the first in Colorado to vote for an ordinance to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The council hasn't even approved the symbolic measure on second reading, but that hasn't slowed a furious flurry of e-mails to the town and its newspapers and the cancellation of Telluride vacations by those who have no desire to schuss through politically tinged powder or share high-altitude air with "loony liberals." Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877534/posts#comment Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:00:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855930/posts SLAY THREAT BY TALIBAN Reuters June 25, 2007 -- KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban says it will kill 18 Afghan mine-clearing experts if an investigation shows they're working for U.S.-led forces, officials and the insurgents said yesterday. The 18 "deminers" were taken captive at gunpoint, along with four mine-sniffing dogs on Saturday. New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855930/posts#comment Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:06:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816830/posts We share common cause with the Islamist terrorists: Far from being unreasonable fanatics, the terrorists fight for the same things we do. We have a common enemy. Ian Buruma, writing in the Financial Times, reveals that “suicide bombers and jihadis” are by their very nature unreasonable. “There is nothing to negotiate with people who wish to kill as many infidels as they can to establish a divine realm of the faithful,” he instructs us. They see “mass murder as an existential act,” he adds. What source is Buruma drawing on to make these extravagant conclusions? I have been paying... The Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816830/posts#comment Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:14:24 GMT