http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/misc-chat/ en-us Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:12:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041569/posts Rafael Rivadeneira was crying a river to local news papers this past week about a report on the John McCain "Hispanic Reception in Chicago." He wanted to set the record straight! Let's look at the facts......Rafael readily admits he supports Comprehensive Immigration Reform which American taxpayers have come to know as Amnesty for illegal aliens. It has cost Americans billions of dollars, but hey Rafael could care less, he supports it! This is the same Comprehensive Immigration Reform that SHUT DOWN the White House switchboard June 2007. But who's listening? Was Rafael out of the country that he did not... Illinois Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041569/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:12:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041544/posts A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people's heads. ray gun A company plans to create a gun that takes down transgressors with only sound. (Getty/ABC News) The device – dubbed MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) – exploits the microwave audio effect, in which short microwave pulses rapidly heat tissue, causing a shockwave inside the skull that can be detected by the ears. A series of pulses can be transmitted to produce recognisable sounds. The device is aimed for military or crowd-control applications, but may have... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041544/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:54:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041498/posts A 91-year-old Greendale woman who was trapped under a vehicle in her garage for about two days this week is recovering at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, her niece said. Betty Borowski, who lives alone, apparently became stuck sometime Sunday when she tried to retrieve her keys, which she thought had fallen under the vehicle, Greendale Police Chief Rob Dams said. Borowski’s head appeared to be pinned under the axle, Dams said. “She was pretty well wedged in there,” Dams said. “It looks like she crawled under head-first.” The keys were in the car’s door, Dams said. On... Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041498/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:44:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041333/posts On Red-Eye just now Greg Gutfield did his Greg-A-Logue which was actually REALLY good. He compared the left to a crazy ex-girlfriend that Obama is now dumping. He said the left is cutting up Obama's underwear. He also said it's funny that if you're a liberal and want to get elected you have to fun from your beliefs. Then he said Obama was dropping Wesley Clark like a "Bug Infested Potato" Does Clark still work for Fox or did they drop him? Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041333/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 04:23:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041217/posts This summer, NASA plans to propel a satellite the size of a loaf of bread through space with an ultra-thin, 100-square-foot sail called NanoSail-D. Developed and constructed in just six months as the result of a partnership between Marshall Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center, NASA will ride the sail into space on an upcoming flight of the new Falcon 1 launch vehicle developed by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California. The launch is scheduled for take place from Omelek Island in the Pacific Ocean. Once in space, a Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployer, or P-POD, developed at the... The Engineer Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041217/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:36:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041198/posts Link to videoHas anyone tried one of these? I have not, but they look kinda neat. CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041198/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:50:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041071/posts I've got a great idea! Let's go over to the "Smears" website and use their "PUSH BACK NOW" form letter -- except that before you mail it out, you change the verbiage from: "Friend -- You may have recently heard right-wing smears questioning Barack Obama's birth certificate and citizenship. These assertions are completely false and designed to play into the worst kind of stereotypes. You can see Barack Obama's birth certificate for yourself and help push back with the truth at: http://my.barackobama.com/fightthesmears Together we can make sure these negative and divisive attacks don't affect this campaign. Thanks for your help.... The Greater Evil http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041071/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:23:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041117/posts Don't really know why, but this put a smile on my face this morning..hope it works for you! WHERE THE HELL IS MATT? Where the Hell is Matt? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041117/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:57:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041103/posts My spam filter grabs a non-spam email now and then and I've been monitoring what it does so I can adjust the settings and make sure it stops doing that. One of the spam I got last night had the title 'Obama found dead in shock accident'. I'm sure if it said 'Bush' or "McCain' instead of Obama conservatives would be up in arms about it, and so I hope also see this in the same light. I'm in Canada so I'm sure if this breaks a law or not up here. Have any of you in the USA received... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041103/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:29:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041087/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) - Scientists with the US Phoenix lander will make their first analysis of Martian ice fragments in coming days but it could be the last done in one of the probe's small ovens, NASA said on its website Friday. ADVERTISEMENT A team of engineers and scientists were trying to get to the bottom of what caused a short-circuit on the TEGA (Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer) which has four small ovens able to heat samples of Martian soil up to 1,000 degrees Celsius. "Since there is no way to assess the probability of another short circuit occurring, we are... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2041087/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:18:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040999/posts OAKLAND -- The fact that fireworks are illegal and potentially dangerous did not prevent many Oakland residents from setting them off on Friday night. KTVU's Amber Lee found adults and children playing with fireworks on 100th Avenue. "I spent a hundred dollars for my kids, for the Fourth of July", said Vitalino Acabal of Oakland. He insisted it was just part of summer vacation fun. A few blocks away, a four year old girl and her 12 year old brother were setting off bottle rockets. Their 15 year old sister said their parents weren't home, but it's part of her... KTVU.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040999/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 06:13:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040990/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040990/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 05:07:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040942/posts HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDIGO!!! Indigo and his Mother, AnnaZ at the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas (for the FRiva conference, August 2002) Indigo and his older brother Hamlet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040942/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 02:20:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040922/posts A Wax Figure of Thomas Jefferson at Tussad's Wax Museum. Very lifelike. Tussaud’s Wax Museum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040922/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 01:15:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040873/posts Actor Paul Hogan, star of the Crocodile Dundee films, has challenged Australian tax investigators to "come and get me" in the United States following reports he is under investigation. Speaking outside his mansion in Santa Barbara California, the 68-year-old said: "They should build a statue of me up there at the tax office." "Come and get me," Hogan said with a grin, in an obscenity-laced statement addressed to the Australian Taxation Office. ukpress.google http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040873/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 22:21:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040863/posts The nine august justices of the United States Supreme Court — or at least the five conservative Republicans — chose the wrong time to make a sea change in constitutional law, admitting the Second Amendment to our pantheon of civil liberties. By demonstrating how willing they are to toss aside decades of jurisprudence in pursuit of a conservative agenda, they sent a chill into the souls of women all across the nation and resurrected fears that Roe v. Wade is next on the chopping block. Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040863/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:29:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040841/posts Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. "Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest... Answers.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040841/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 19:53:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040690/posts This audio was played this morning on WMAL's "Grandy & Andy Morning Show" and I was laughing so hard I almost fell over. You will totally enjoy this. Here's the YouTube blurb: "This was sent to me by a friend, its legit... following is the story from him. Okay guys here is the info on this voicemail. One of my friend's from work and her friend were out one night in the SF Marina district and were hanging outside of the bars trying to find a cab. One of the girl's, Olga ends up meeting this guy Dmitri and they... YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040690/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 13:20:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040651/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2dfD0ryMco Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040651/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:57:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040647/posts Diver catches giant crab   A giant crab with a shell 12in wide has been caught by an Aylesbury diver off the UK coast. The crustacean, weighing 17lb and with a claw span of 9in, was found by diver Paul Worsley during a recent diving trip in Lyme Regis, Dorset. Douglas Lanfear, who runs the dive boat Blue Turtle, said he was amazed at the size of the crab. He said: "It was truly a monster. It was the biggest crab I have ever seen in all my years and there were fishermen who have been working here for... The Crawley Observer (UK) / Various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040647/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:29:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040450/posts When hang means, as it generally does, "to suspend," then hung is the correct past-tense and past participial form of the verb: "Yesterday, I hung a picture on the wall"; "I have hung many pictures on many walls." When hang means "to put to death by hanging," however, hanged is the correct past-tense and past participial form: "We hanged the horse-thieving varmint yesterday"; "We've hanged nigh unto forty horse thieves this year." Given that hanging has become a fairly infrequent means to a fairly infrequent end, you might think that this is an unimportant distinction. But, because of a colloquial... Paint The English http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040450/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:04:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040419/posts Here is video of police seizing guns from citizens of New Orleans after Katrina. While looters ran wild, cops were seizing guns from law abiding citizens. This video is unbelievable and really must be seen. Glen Beck Program http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040419/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 20:49:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040351/posts My wife mentioned the other day she heard some Obama supporter state that since the military is so thin that a President Obama will have to bring back the draft. Did anyone else hear this? Can anyone supply a link to either a transcript or video of this? Thank you for your help. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040351/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:18:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040342/posts Beirut, July 2: At "Buns and Guns" you can order a "Kalashnikov" sandwich from a bullet-shaped menu, prepared by chefs in military fatigues with the roar of explosions as background music. This new fast food restaurant in Beirut's southern suburbs, where the Hezbollah movement holds sway, was the brainchild of co-owner Ali Hammoud. He said the war theme was a novel concept that had nothing to do with Lebanon's bloody recent history. "It's just an idea I had, nothing more, nothing less. I could have put toys in place of the sandbags and teddy bears instead of guns. But it... http://www.expressindia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040342/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:04:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040341/posts Horn Lake, MS -- The black bear spotted in the Horn Lake, Mississippi area is still out there somewhere. It was last seen in a wooded area behind the Apple Creek Subdivision. Jimmy Massey was one of the last people to see the bear. "I saw something move in the trees, and there it was about 60 yards from me. It just stopped and stood there for about 30 seconds," Massey said. Mississippi Wildlife Officials believe the bear may be lost or looking for a mate. They tried to pick up a signal from a tracking collar the bear may... WPTY 24 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040341/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:58:13 GMT