http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/military/ en-us Tue, 5 Jan 2010 02:00:00 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421042/posts     ~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Naval Station Newport, Rhode IslandThe Naval Station Newport (NAVSTA Newport) is a United States Navy base located in the towns of Newport and Middletown, Rhode Island. NS Newport is home to the Naval War College. It once was the homeport for Cruiser Destroyer Force Atlantic, and now maintains inactive ships at its pier facilities, along with the United States Coast Guard. In BRAC 2005 (Base Realignment and Closure), NAVSTA Newport gained over five hundred billets, in addition to receiving, again, Officer Candidate School (OCS), and the Naval Supply Corps School, and... Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421042/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420896/posts Does Obama know anyone who isn't wacky, radical, militant, judeophobic, socialist, marxist, pedophilic? ...... Does he chill with anyone who is normal? Isn't there one Marilyn Munster in the family? What a freak show this presidency is. I guess this is better than teaching fist f**king to our children. Now there's a positive spin. President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department. ABC News In a statement, Simpson, a member of the National Center for Transgender Equality's board of directors, said that "as one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the... Atlas Shrugs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420896/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:55:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420747/posts Excuse my english - I woke up this morning, thinking whew...holidays finally gone, we can get back to work. I was happy and all excited. Suddenly, for some reason, an image went through my mind - like a flash - an image which had everything in it in one shot and then I got sick to my stomach. I suddenly saw, in one second, all what happened last year in America - banks, auto, all the executive orders, islam invasion even in the government, dictatorial arrogance, rules of engagement, healthcare...all the same than where I escaped from - and I... me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420747/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:02:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420724/posts 04 January 2010 (Unfortunately, this news comes as I wait to board a flight from Hong Kong to the United States. It must be written quickly and without editing.) A reporter at Canwest News Service emailed Saturday asking for information on the four Canadian soldiers and the journalist who were killed on December 30 in Afghanistan. I supplied a portion of the unpublicized information, and the reporter emailed Sunday that the Canadian military is “trying to suppress our telling of your information.” The reporter also wrote, “While the Canadian military confirmed to me much of the information you provided, they... Michael Yon Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420724/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 18:33:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2420588/posts by You I can run through a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. As for God, His way is perfect! The word of the Lord is tested and tried; He is a shield to all those who take refuge and put their trust in Him. For who is God except the Lord? Or who is the Rock save our God, The God who girds me with strength and makes my way perfect? He makes my feet like hinds' feet [able to stand firmly or make progress on the dangerous heights of testing and trouble];... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2420588/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:44:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420407/posts PLAINS, GA (WALB) – A doll found hanging off of a building in Plains is causing controversy.Controversial enough to get the United States Secret Service involved. Witnesses say it was an image of President Barack Obama with a rope around his neck and the display was found hanging in one of the city's most recognizable sites dedicated to former President Jimmy Carter.A few people were able to snap pictures of the black doll before it was taken down. The doll was hanging on a building on Main Street in Plains."I saw this stuffed thing hanging up," said Alonzo Davis, Plains... Hotair Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420407/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 06:30:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420375/posts WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon and other US agencies, a US newspaper reported late Sunday. Obama laid out his vision of a nuclear-free world in a speech in Prague last April. But citing unnamed officials, the newspaper said the Obama administration is now locked in internal debate over a top-secret policy blueprint for shrinking the US nuclear arsenal and reducing the role of such weapons in country's military strategy. The Pentagon has stressed the importance of continued US deterrence, an objective Obama has... The International News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420375/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 04:52:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420286/posts Our Troops Rock!  Thank you for all you do!   For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.   Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today!     ~ Hall of Heroes ~Nancy Wake"The White Mouse"Info and some photos from this website.             Young Rebel from http://www.nzedge.com  Nancy Wake was born in the gusty heights of Roseneath, Wellington, New Zealand, on 13 August 1912 to Charles Augustus and Ella Rosieur Wake, the youngest of six children. The biography Nancy Wake, by Australian... Serving the Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420286/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 01:02:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420268/posts This video is great because it feels like a movie trailer. Since people are so used to watching movie trailers, and wait for all the music cues and taglines interspliced with images, videos like this really drive points home to the public at large. More, please. ******* NOTE: For whatever reason, this video’s being attacked and taken down off YouTube, perhaps by Obots again. It’s so good, those of you with video skills need to: (1) Download it to your computers (2) Create YouTube accounts you can load this into (3) Put the video up as many times as you... Hillbuzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420268/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:29:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420156/posts I am not sure I understand why we did not hear from Sarah Palin about Yemen - the terrorist bomber - AND why she is not speaking out to help Brown in MA. Your thoughts? fr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420156/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:27:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420120/posts Yet new regulations proposed by the administration, and specifically by the ever-incompetent Securities and Exchange Commission, seek to pull one of these three core pillars from the foundation of the entire money market industry, by changing the primary assumptions of the key Money Market Rule 2a-7. A key proposal in the overhaul of money market regulation suggests that money market fund managers will have the option to "suspend redemptions to allow for the orderly liquidation of fund assets." You read that right: this does not refer to the charter of procyclical, leveraged, risk-ridden, transsexual (allegedly) portfolio manager-infested hedge funds like... zero hedge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420120/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:29:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420150/posts The U.S. Government is offering the suspect charged with attempting to bomb an aircraft on Christmas Day, Omar Abdulmutallab, some kind of incentives to share what he knows about Al Qaeda, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday. Asked why Abdulmutallab should cooperate given his right, as criminal defendant, to remain silent, Brennan replied: "He doesn't have to but he knows there are certain things that are on the table... if he wants to engage with us in a productive manner, there are ways he can do that." Asked if Abdulmutallab's willingness to talk changed once he had an... politico.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420150/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:17:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419905/posts Press Releases Embassy Closed in Response to Security Threat The U.S. Embassy in Sana’a is closed today, January 3, 2010, in response to ongoing threats by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to attack American interests in Yemen. On December 31, the U.S. Embassy sent a warden message to Americans citizens in Yemen to remind them of the continuing threat of terrorist actions and violence against American citizens and interests throughout the world. The U.S. Embassy reminds U.S. citizens to maintain a high level of vigilance and to practice enhanced security awareness. U.S. Department of State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419905/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 12:18:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420105/posts French President Nicolas Sarkozy has gone cold on his US counterpart Barack Obama, the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday. Sarkozy, whose pro-Washington stance has seen him nicknamed "Sarko the American," stressed that France and the US were "the same family" during his first face-to-face meeting with Obama in April since the US elections last year. But the French president has clashed since then with his US counterpart on a series of issues, raising the question of whether Sarkozy is reverting to the anti-US posture of his predecessor, Jacques Chirac. "He has now shifted from a pro-Bush position to an anti-Obama... The Global Times of China http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420105/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:10:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419915/posts Eight years after the war began, 2009 was the deadliest year for U.S. service members fighting in Afghanistan and the first time American casualties there exceeded the number in Iraq, Pentagon records show. Share At least 8 Americans died in a suicide bombing at Army base. More than 312 American soldiers died in Afghanistan last year -- nearly twice as many as in 2008. In Iraq, only 150 Americans lost their lives, half as many as the year before. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419915/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 12:53:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419760/posts         SEEK TO KNOW GOD BETTER [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly]. — Philippians 3:10 This was the cry of the apostle Paul’s heart as he sought to have such a deep relationship with Christ that the trials of life would barely be noticeable. At the beginning of this new year, it is a wise thing for you to seek also. There are plenty of... The Canteen Crew http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419760/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:01:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419660/posts Last September, President Obama betrayed Poland and The Czech republic under the bus by reneging on a promised missile defense system in an effort to gain favor with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Poland and The Czech Republic have been two of our staunchest allies in the war on terror and Obama’s decision was, to me, not qualitatively different from what Neville Chamberlain did at Munich in 1938 when he appeased Hitler, thus handing Czechoslovakia to Hitler on a silver platter. In a particularly appalling sense of timing, Obama’s decision came on the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s invasion of Poland in... conservatives4palin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419660/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:27:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419656/posts The only surprising aspect of this story is the fact that it still surprises people, including the New York Times, apparently. When Barack Obama announced a $75 billion program to have everyone else in the country subsidize foreclosure protection from homeowners who got themselves in over their heads, his allies hailed it as a compassionate program that would allow those who made poor decisions with their money a chance to avoid the normal consequences of those decisions. Now it appears that the program not only failed in its mission, but actually made the situation worse for those in danger of... Hotair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419656/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:15:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419651/posts I have no grand insights to offer but this is too awful and too … astounding, really, to be relegated to Headlines. These people were the tip of the American spear against jihadist kingpins in the Afghan/Pakistani border region, the innermost circle in a big Venn diagram that starts with the CIA, proceeds to the units tasked with finding intel on AQ, and ends with the elite charged with building the target list for drone operators. In one split second, that last circle was practically erased. If you thought the biggest security breach of the past week was Flight 253,... Hotair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419651/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:09:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2419635/posts O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago. You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners' stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt. Therefore strong peoples will honor you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you. (Isaiah 25:1-3) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2419635/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 19:30:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419385/posts There's good news and bad news for 2010. The good news is that there is a real hero of freedom in Ira: a member of the Iraqi parliament named Mithal al-Alusi. In the Iraq war, one thing most Americans have wondered about is who really stands for the people and who, if anybody, still harbors those glowing embers of freedom that ultimately overthrew Soviet totalitarianism. (That's the one our kids don't learn about in school anymore because it might make America look good.) Is it really true that Iraqis wanted their freedom after three decades of Saddam Hussein's brutal fascism?... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419385/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 09:06:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419229/posts I admire Sarah Palin. She gives me hope for the future, and reminds me of the great Jewish heroine Esther. Humble, reverential and courageous. I hope she becomes the first female president of the United States. I have carefully observed the impressive onslaught of lies and hatred directed at her since she joined John McCain in his bid for the White House. I will review just a few of her splendid accomplishments. What I like most about Sarah Palin is her love for her husband and her children. I've long believed there is nothing nobler a person can do in... Governor Palin 4 President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419229/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:41:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419336/posts Martha Coakley, the current Massachusetts Attorney General, is not fit to be a United States Senator. Anyone who thinks so only needs to study the Fells Acres Day Care case. The Fells Acres Day Care was started by Violet Amirault and run with the help of her son, Gerald, and his sister, Cheryl Amirault LeFave. In the midst of the daycare sex abuse hysteria of the 1980s, all three were charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse. The charges were some of the most heinous ever made. However, they were also ludicrous. Supposedly Gerald dressed up as a clown and... examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419336/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 04:21:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419285/posts    ***** ~ Canteen Music Dedication ~ ***** ~ Support The Artists ~   Support the artists you hear throughout the Canteen! Click on the links below! Keep the music going! ArtistDirect l  Internet Radio l  AOL Music l  Sonique (Lycos) l  Real Radio Live365 l  971TheRiver  l  GotRadio  l  Wherehouse  l  Target  l Shoutcast AFRTS l  VH1 l XM Radio l  BET l  audiophile l  Virgin Radio l  Soma (Alternative) Acaza l AudioRealm l VH1 l  Yahoo! Launch Music l  Radio Disney l  Live-Radio Net ITunes l Amazon l Salsa Radio l MTV l CMT l Ticketmaster l... Our Troops Rock!!!!! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419285/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 02:01:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418388/posts An Iranian opposition website today said the government was moving troops and armoured military vehicles to the capital on the day supporters of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi planned to hold a rally. RTE News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418388/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:04:16 GMT