http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/makeyourtime/ en-us Thu, 29 May 2008 18:31:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023106/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023106/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 18:31:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969529/posts DAMASCUS BLAST ON TUESDAY KILLED SENIOR HEZBOLLAH MILITARY COMMANDER - LEBANESE POLITICAL SOURCE Reuters (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969529/posts#comment Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:52:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969871/posts WASHINGTON – While Israel has formally refuted allegations it was involved in the assassination of Hizbullah 'operations officer' Imad Mugniyah in Damascus on Tuesday, former CIA official Bruce Riedel says all signs seem to indicate the Mossad was behind the killing. Riedel, who spent over 30 years with the CIA before serving as a senior advisor on South Asian and Middle East affairs under three US presidents, said Israel has already carried out similar operations in Syria Currently a senior fellow with the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institute, he says Mugniyah's assassination proves Israel has... YnetNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969871/posts#comment Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:14:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765600/posts BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's prime minister has told Shiite militiamen to surrender their arms or face an all-out assault by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces, senior Iraqi officials said Wednesday, as President Bush said he will commit an additional 21,500 American combat troops to the war. Under pressure from the U.S., Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has agreed to crack down on fighters controlled by his most powerful political ally, Muqtada al-Sadr, a radical Shiite cleric, according to officials. Previously, al-Maliki had resisted the move. "Prime Minister al-Maliki has told everyone that there will be no escape from attack," a senior Shiite legislator... AP and Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765600/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:00:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702782/posts Nato-led troops killed 17 suspected insurgents who were placing roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan, an alliance statement said today. The alleged insurgents were discovered placing the explosives outside a military base in the southern Uruzgan province yesterday.Nato troops then initiated a gun battle and alliance aircraft later dropped two bombs on them, the statement said. Five insurgent vehicles were also destroyed in the clash. No Nato troops were wounded, according to the statement. Irish Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702782/posts#comment Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:58:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682703/posts 500 pounder dropped on guys planting IED - they never knew what hit them.Please go to the link to see the whole video. StartegyPage.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682703/posts#comment Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:17:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679483/posts The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the United States and Israel would not survive if they attacked his nation, the IRNA news agency reported today. "Without doubt, if the criminals (the United States and Israel) want to make any moves against Iran they will be stricken by a blow 100 times stronger and they will not survive in the face of Iran's power," General Yahya Rahim Safavi was quoted as saying. Iran is under threat of international sanctions if it fails to comply with a United Nations Security Council resolution to suspend uranium enrichment by August 31. Washington has... The Australian. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679483/posts#comment Mon, 7 Aug 2006 22:24:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672865/posts Shin Bet security service agents have begun telephoning members of Palestinian terrorist organizations and warning them to leave their houses, so that they and their families will not be hurt when Israel bombs them, Palestinian sources said yesterday. According to the sources, Shin Bet agents have contacted members of various armed organizations over the last few days and warned them that Israel plans to attack their houses. The houses in question are being targeted because Israel believes that they are being used to store or manufacture weapons, including Qassam rockets and rocket-propelled grenades. Before dawn yesterday, the Israel Defense Forces... Ha'aertz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672865/posts#comment Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:39:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654522/posts I am not certain what the legal ramifications would be in changing Free Republic from donations to a subscription service. It seems to me the switch may be detrimental to legal issues such as copyrights. If that is true I'd appreciate if someone could briefly explain that to me. However if that is not the case here is my suggestion: I have been wondering about this for some time now and have not seen any discussions about it. So I would like to ask: Is it time for Free Republic to become an online subscription service? Currently, the site is... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654522/posts#comment Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:27:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495843/posts Dear Mr. President, I never imagined a day would come when I would disavow a Republican President, but that day is here. With your selection of Harriet Miers today, you have betrayed your word, you have betrayed me and you have betrayed every social conservative who ever worked on your behalf. This was a historic opportunity for you to deliver on your campaign promises and finally give us a nominee in the vein of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Instead you fumbled. We know Michael Luttig, Edith Hollan Jones, or Janice Rogers Brown are reliably conservative. We have no such... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495843/posts#comment Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:16:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492426/posts RUSH: I want to now go to these Dan Rather sound bites. Dan Rather was interviewed last night at the National Press Club in Washington by former CBS News employee-reporter Marvin Kalb. Marvin Kalb now runs the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center at Harvard, and you know something? When you hear these bites you're going to understand what I'm saying here. This is one of the problems of the mainstream media today. When these reporters that get long in the tooth get laid off or retired, they farm them out to these think tanks and these journalism... Limbaugh http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492426/posts#comment Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:03:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1483788/posts Narrator: In A.D. 2005, weather conspiracy was beginning. Mayor Nagin: What happen ? Senator Landrieu: Somebody set up us the flood. (spoken in the Flash animation as Someone set up us the flood.) Governor Blanco: We get signal. Mayor: What ! Governor: Main screen turn on. Mayor: It's you !! ROVE: How are you gentlemen !! ROVE: All your bus are belong to us. ROVE: You are on the way to destruction. Mayor: What you say !! ROVE: You have no chance to survive make your time. ROVE: Ha Ha Ha Ha ... Governor: Mayor !! * Mayor: Take off... self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1483788/posts#comment Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:27:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1483190/posts dude... like these arab dudes are always blowing themselves up man. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1483190/posts#comment Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:25:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471664/posts I am trying to find an email address to contact Reuters in order to submit a complaint about a reporter. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471664/posts#comment Sat, 27 Aug 2005 02:21:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444751/posts BRITISH police are considering the possibility that the four key suspects in last week's London attacks may have been tricked into setting off their bombs, a newspaper has reported. "We do not have hard evidence that the men were suicide bombers," a Scotland Yard spokesman told The Sunday Telegraph. "It is possible that they did not intend to die." According to the paper, one police hypothesis is that the bombers were tricked by a "master" who told them they would have time to escape - when in fact the devices were set to go off immediately. "The bombers' masters might... News.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444751/posts#comment Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:03:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1443017/posts DESPITE the intelligence failure that led the Bush administration to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the Pentagon is pressing ahead with the development of technologies designed to destroy WMDs. Its latest idea is a bomb that can destroy deeply buried WMD storage bunkers by cutting through earth and concrete inside a bubble of air. Traditional "bunker busters" are streamlined bombs that rely on sheer weight to force their way through soil, rock or concrete. But the new design has a blunt nose that forces the earth ahead of it out to the sides, creating a cavity the bomb... Eurekalert | New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1443017/posts#comment Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:34:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378374/posts US 'to launch bombs from unmanned spacecraft' By Tom Leonard, New York The Pentagon is looking to space as the next frontier in its quest for absolute military supremacy. It is planning a new generation of sub-orbital bombers able to strike anywhere in the world "within minutes". The Falcon programme will this year test a launcher for its Common Aero Vehicle (CAV), an unmanned spacecraft that would travel five times the speed of sound and carry 1,000 pounds of bombs and intelligence sensors, the House armed services committee has been told. Defence chiefs expect the CAV to be ready by... GlobalSecurity.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378374/posts#comment Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:49:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375756/posts Six months ago, Free Republic was riding high, and I was proud to be a part of it. It was coming off having blown the cover off of Dan Rather’s use of forged memos against the President. The President was well on his way to winning re-election. It was a great time to be a Freeper. However, things have changed. It started with the justifiable removal of ALIPAC. I supported that move by Jim Robinson, but the ugliness directed towards Alberto Gonzales. He was accused of everything under the sun, and Senator Mel Martinez was viciously attacked for speaking Spanish... myself http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375756/posts#comment Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:39:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1375809/posts First, this is NOT an April Fool's joke. I am leaving Free Republic. Over the past two years, civility and thoughtful discourse has vanished from this site, replaced with demands for ideological conformity that are straight out of Stalinist Russia or China's Great Cultural Revolution, and unrelenting uncivility if said conformance is not forthcoming. This trend began with the California recall election, where certain posters were allowed to flame the living beejezus out of those who didn't wholeheartedly support Tom McClintock, or thought that he wasn't running a campaign capable of winning. It extended into the Keyes campaign last year,... Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, sayeth Qohotoleth... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1375809/posts#comment Sat, 2 Apr 2005 00:26:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1367719/posts If you, gentlemen, really want “to see US politics from another angle”, compare it with politics of present-day totalitarian regimes in Central Asia, for instance. And you’ll realize that there are practically no differences for our “democratic” state and e.g. authoritarian government in Turkmenistan. It’s common knowledge that Turkmen authorities abridge liberty of speech, freedom of the press, exercising control over mass and I-net. They bow down, imposing restrictions on freedom of association and assembly, in order to curtail political activity of non-governmental organizations, including groups of religious minorities. Nijazov does it with the aim of exercising control over latitude... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1367719/posts#comment Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:58:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339455/posts A member of the radical Islamic movement Hamas has been killed in a blast in the southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian medical sources and witnesses say the cause of the blast is not immediately known. Two other people were slightly wounded in the explosion near the home of the victim. An Israeli military spokesman says there was no army activity in the region at the time of the blast. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced at a summit with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas yesterday his armed forces would cease all military activity against all Palestinians. ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339455/posts#comment Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:04:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1329754/posts I am all for whaling, but against killing the wolves. In Norway we have a very small population of wolves. More sheeps die from falling down cliffs and other natural things than being killed by wolves. Actually more sheeps are killed by another wild animal. Whales on the other hand there are many of in the sea. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1329754/posts#comment Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:23:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/970848/posts LOS ANGELES — The Planned Parenthood Association says it's not too early to be thinking of that perfect Christmas gift idea. They will be offering the little beauties (pictured left) at their Los Angeles offices starting next month. It's all part of a new nationwide campaign to make condoms more fun. "They could even be used as finger puppets, as you can see," said a spokesman for Planned Parenthood. "We're trying to get people away from thinking of the condom as strictly a 'backdoor' business." The spokesman said that Jewish versions are still in the testing phase. "Both the Star... bongonews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/970848/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:44:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/970667/posts In the constitution it says we have freedom to worship whatever we want, that doesn't hold true in Alabama. I support Judge Moore who shoudn't take the monument down. I want your oppinion WRAL News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/970667/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:55:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/970658/posts For most people, Moscow's underworld conjures up images of high-rolling gangsters driving around in expensive cars. For Vadim Mikhailov, Moscow's underworld is a tangible place of wonder and awe, a site of endless tunnels and labyrinths, clandestine streams and strange, unexplainable phenomena. "Moscow has the largest, deepest and most complicated network of underground channels of any city in the world," Mikhailov said. In 1990, Mikhailov founded Diggers of the Underground Planet, a loose confederacy of subterranean explorers. The group first formed in Moscow, but now it has members in major cities all over the world. Mikhailov's love affair with the... Moscow Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/970658/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:44:23 GMT