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The constant bad news from the liberal media corporations is very dangerous! I've been finding communist/Stalinist propaganda like this all over the net: Frankly the people ranting against "community" don't realize how they've benefited from it - it was non-profit inventions like the internet, computers, modern electricity, phones, x-rays, penicillin, radio waves, and lightbulbs (Göbel), that make life better today. (*Also* state funding of science, medicine, & university research!) "Conservatives" like to rant about how everything good came from greed, but it's just a huge lie: 1. The computer - “This came from pure scientific thought, and not at all...

FCC to go after Talk Radio Dear Talk Radio Hosts, guests and listeners: Even though they virtually dominate the media on television and in print, liberals are now poised to go after the top prize: talk radio. Despite the fact that there is no market for their radical ideas, they are building the case to use the FCC to censor free speech by resurrecting the Fairness Doctrine -- a blatant form of government control of ideas that could banish the conservative voice from the airwaves! Right now, a bill is being prevented from getting to the floor for a vote...

Just wishing all my fellow Freepers (and non-Freepers alike) a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Todd and I would like to introduce you to a very special project we will be involved with over the next year, and why it is so important to us. As many of you know, my son, Capt. Derek Argel was deployed to heaven on Memorial Day, 2005. He was a commando with AF Special Operations, and aboard a small Iraqi aircraft on a special mission with three other US Commandos, and one Iraqi. Derek's son Logan, was only eight months old. At that time, we were introduced to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. HISTORY: Special Operations Warriors are referred...

And the Android will lie down with the Lamb by JohnHuang2 It’s so wonderful Al Gore shattered the glass ceiling for Androids to win the Nobel Peace Prize! For a cool million-dollar prize, now the Middle East is filled with peace. Muslim fanatics no longer kill. Al-Qaeda now loves America. Iran adores Israel. The Turks are wild about the Kurds! (Even Democrats are now full of love for NASCAR, no longer thinking you catch hepatitis by watching cars racing.) If you look at the history of this award, Willy Brandt got the Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness about...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The fate of what some scientists dub "the people's telescope" is again up in the air as NASA decides soon whether to squeeze in a last astronaut repair mission to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope. On Friday, NASA engineers will debate the safety of sending a fifth and final manned space shuttle flight to the 16-year-old telescope, probably in 2008. Soon afterward, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin will make the final call.

Turn on the TV, open the newspaper, log on to the internet, and you'll see them: Muslim extremists, responding to the latest "outrage against Islam" like teenyboppers freaking out over the latest TV heartthrob. (Hot: Pope Benedict XVI. Not: Danish cartoons). They rant, they rage, they riot, they rape, all in the name of Allah. Tiredly, we change the channel to ESPN, flip to the horoscope, or click over to shavedasians.com. Of course the bastards are freaking out, we think. They're Muslims. Nothing new there. But they're all overseas. The ones we have here at home are all okay, right?...

Sean Hannity visited Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. Hannity's lecture included the time he tricked Paul Begala with the quotes John Kerry made supporting invading Iraq. He also spoke about facing the evil of our time in the same way we had to face Hitler. Hannity did many impersonations of Bill Clinton and talked about how the democrats had lost the South. He briefly talked about his disagreements with Repubicans on the issues of over-spending and illegal immigration. His ending statement was that in times of war, we need the right people in power. During Q/A session, most of the...

This was the day five years ago that war began between the US and Jihad, an unincorporated combine of Islamic nations, gangs, sects and tribes united in a campaign to harm, disable, defeat, and exterminate "infidel" Christians and Jews. There are various explanations for why this started. I have my own.       It's essentially an ecological crisis, conveniently pegged on an old religious beef. The population of many Islamic nations, fed by oil wealth, has reached critical overshoot. In particular, there are too many young men with no positions, no incomes, no prospects, and no hopes. Their glandular energies have...

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July 28 — Dear Diary: Not a great night for this Braveheart of Malibu. I was at Moonshadows, drinking and chatting with fans about Apocalypto. This film is going to be big. I can feel it in my soul. Anyway, I'm walking to the men's room when this guy says, "Mel? You know who created all the problems with the Mayans?" I'm like, "Who, friend?" "The Jews." Read rest of the article......

What ELSE did God Tell Pat Robertson Every year Pat Robertson goes on a prayer retreat kind of like his "quality time" with God. This is when the Lord gives Pat those personal tidbits about what's going to happen in the world. This year's tidbit was: "If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms," Robertson said May 8. On Wednesday, he added, "There well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest." Reading this quote got me thinking why God would pick Pat Robertson to talk to....

The Mexican people aren't the only ones who realize that the "country" known as Mexico is no longer a civilized nation. Thousands of animals are leaving the 3rd world cesspool that should be an oil rich world superpower. El Cujo, a miniature Chihuahua who recently crossed the border complained about Mexico's poor health conditions. "I may eat crap, nibble my butt, and look like a rat with acromegaly, but I don't want to live in a country that has to send ambulances to another country for emergency healthcare. El Cujo also knows that US doctors don’t extort families of foreigners...

If you're going to drop names, drop big ones. Last night, our friend Tammy invited Sheryl and me to have dinner with Mary Cheney. She was in LA (fresh from a Larry King appearance) to promote her new book - Now It's my Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life. Of course we were pleased at the invitation. How many times do you get a chance to meet the daughter of a sitting vice president, especially one at the center of controversy herself? Mary, as most of you undoubtedly know, is the first publicly out homosexual child of such a...

THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD I dreamed I had an interview with God. “So you would like to interview me?” God asked. “If you have the time” I said. God smiled. “My time is eternity.” “What questions do you have in mind for me?” “What surprises you most about humankind?” God answered... “That they get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.” “That they lose their health to make money... and then lose their money to restore their health.” “That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they...

He may have not been the “perfect dad”, but he is mine and I miss him He was not always there in my childhood, but when he was, he was my hero. And I miss him. We “lost” him in the mid ‘80s, when I say “lost”, I mean not physically, but, in a more “spiritual and emotional way” I remember many things that he did or said that made me mad or was annoying then But, man, what I wouldn’t give to have those days back! I remember how he would mangle Christmas carols every year, changing to the...

ABC News has suspended for one month without pay John Green, executive producer of the weekend edition of "Good Morning America," because of an e-mail he wrote. I say "an" e-mail, even though Green wrote at least two that have recently come to light. More about the second e-mail in a moment. The first e-mail, published on the Drudge Report Web site, was written by Green to a colleague during the first 2004 presidential debate. It said: "Are you watching this? Bush makes me sick. If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke." When...

And you thought those people that set up roomfulls of dominos to knock over were amazing... There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film. Everything you see really happened in real time exactly as you see it. The film took 606 takes. On the first 605 takes, something, usually very minor, didn't work. They would then have to set the whole thing up again. The crew spent weeks shooting night and day. By the time it was over, they were ready to change professions. The film cost six million dollars and took three months to complete including...

See for example this thread first. The Feds are now set to announce on Cross-border drugs they will pounce not drugs from señors but those for seniors will Viagra get street-sold by the ounce?

PARIS (Reuters) - One third of French people say they are racist, a French human rights watchdog said on Tuesday, after a survey that showed an increase from last year in the number of people who acknowledged being racist. Some 33 percent of 1,011 people surveyed face-to-face by pollsters CSA said they were "somewhat" or "a little" racist, up 8 percentage points from last year, according to an annual report by the National Consultative Commission for Human Rights. The poll asked the question "When it comes to you personally, would you say you are ..." followed by a list of...

6th International Editorial Cartoon Competition 1. The theme of the 6th International Editorial Cartoon Competition, is “Cartooning in a dangerous environment”: to illustrate the pressure under which cartoonists perform their craft: the “chill” of a potential libel suit, the temptation of self-censorship, and security, political, economic and/or editorial constraints to artistic expression. 2. Prizes: three prizes will be given: a first prize of $1500, a crystal trophy, plus a Certificate from the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, a second prize of $750, and a third of $500. All sums are in Canadian dollars. Ten additional cartoons will receive an ³Award of...

These are the remarks I made at the funeral yesterday. Kim proofread and made improvements to them and stood beside me while I spoke. I actually wandered my way into this with some comments on the weather (snowing - like the day Elena was born seven years ago this Friday), the Music (my sister Jill sang Ave Maria. Same song as at our wedding but sounded so different in this different context), and the picture Elena slept with (which I’ll write about later).

The commercial will be broadcast on cable channels By SAMANTHA LEVINE Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Another day, another Tom DeLay ad, another rejection. After four Houston TV stations initially refused last month to show an ad criticizing the Republican House member from Sugar Land, at least one local station is refusing to run a new spot that promotes the lawmaker and attacks a prominent supporter of the Democrats. "We have chosen not to take the spot in its current form," said D'Artagnan Bebel, vice president and general manager of the local Fox affiliate, KRIV (Channel 26)....

Gold Star Parents to Iraq

http://www.thetriplehelix.org/ anyone familiar with organization? Arizona State University has a sub organization ther and wondered what people thought.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged young Russians to observe the traditional moral values of Orthodox Christmas, which is celebrated in Russia on January 7, according to the old calendar. ''The positive influence of Christmas celebrations on the creative and public activities of Russian citizens is growing from year to year. It is important that the younger generation accepts the traditional moral values,'' Mr Putin said in a message greeting the Orthodox Christians and Russians on the occasion of Orthodox Christmas. He attended a Christmas service in the Transfiguration Cathedral in Yakutsk (Sabha republic), in Siberia yesterday, where he was...

Sergiy Kostiuk, for UP Response to President Yushchenko’s article, published in Financial Times, December 22, 2005 Over a half of Ukraine’s population thinks that the country moves in a wrong direction Last year, when Christmas and New Year’s celebration was in full swing in Europe, millions of Ukrainians rebelled against marred regime of Kuchma-Yanukovych. Those events became known as Orange Revolution. Peaceful protest against fraudulent elections ended on December 26th. People of Ukraine chose European democratic values and elected Yushchenko the third President of independent Ukraine. As the year nears its end, Europe celebrates again, but the Ukrainians call the...

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. -- In this photo provided by the Everglades National Park, the carcass of a six-foot American alligator is shown protruding from the mid-section of a 13-foot Burmese python in Everglades National Park, Fla., after the snake apparently swallowed the alligator, resulting in the deaths of both animals. (10/05/05 AP photo)

TEQUESTA, Fla. -- Hattie Siegel sits barefoot on her front porch and tells visitors her life story. Not weird enough? Read more strange news LOOK! Strange News Photos Yet there is one chapter of her life that she still cannot explain. That would be Chapter Seven, the one that says she is bankrupt. STRANGE PHOTOS WEIRD! View 99 unusual photos capturing a variety of strange news. New photos are added frequently! The 83-year-old Kentucky native amassed about $1.8 million in fines, all because she would not keep a manicured yard at her Tequesta home. She is losing much of the...

(CBS) CHICAGO Some racy books about teen sex parties are raising eyebrows. The books are so explicit, they could make some adults blush. But as CBS 2's Sylvia Gomez reports, books like "Rainbow Party" are only telling us what the kids already know. "Each girl put on a different color lipstick ? and the guys all drop their pants" is an excerpt from the novel, "Rainbow Party." They're called lipstick parties and the concept, real or myth, is about teenagers and oral sex. ?Rainbow Party? glorifies it. "Doing It" celebrates it. And there are other books as easy to get...

A report that put the public cost at up to $188 million a year brought harsh reaction from immigrant advocates and signaled a key issue in 2006. Conrad Defiebre, Star Tribune Last update: December 9, 2005 at 8:06 AM Printer friendly E-mail this story Related content Talk: Is it time for change? Download the report (.pdf)Politics Coleman makes 3 more appointments State ties steep costs to illegal immigration Former lottery head takes spot on Board of Regents 2001 pension error dogs Kelly Bush visit stirring Twin Cities A new government report that pegs the public cost of illegal immigration in...

INDIANAPOLIS – Undocumented immigrants in Indiana would receive a special driver’s license if they pass an exam and buy auto insurance under a new proposal. State Rep. John Aguilera, D-East Chicago, said the licenses would not help people gain U.S. citizenship but would be more like a permit to grant driving rights to illegal immigrants. “It should be framed as a public safety issue. That’s what we’re trying to impact here,” said Aguilera, the only Hispanic member of the General Assembly and chairman of the Indiana Commission on Hispanic/Latino Affairs. The commission plans to present the General Assembly with a...

Jack Thompson will give $10,000 to charity if any videogame company makes and releases a game based on a scenario he created. Miami, Florida Attorney Jack Thompson, a long-time outspoken critic of violent and sexually explicit videogames, has done something totally unexpected. Thompson today actually proposed a violent videogame, and will pay $10,000 to the favorite charity of Paul Eibeler (the Chairman of Take-Two Interactive) if any videogame company will "create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game in 2006" based on a scenario he created. Thompson's proposal is titled A Modest Video Game Proposal and has been sent to...

In October 2004, enterpreneur Rocco Monteleone started a cereal bar called Bowls in Gainesville, Florida. Located in a college town with no other cereal bars, Bowls appeared likely to be a successful venture. However, recently cereal bar chain Cereality (which has no locations in Florida) threatened Bowls with lawsuits should Bowls tread on Cereality's turf. Cereality has patents pending to give them an exclusive right to six business methods, including "displaying and mixing competitively branded food products" and adding "a third portion of liquid." If these patents are approved by the U.S. Patent Office, Cereality would have a complete monopoly...

Rejoice gaming fans, for the latest new “feature” of Blizzard Entertainment’s smash hit multi-player online videogame World of Warcraft is here! No, it’s not a new Sword of Destruction or Staff of Power—it’s spyware! Yes, unbeknownst to many gamers, World of Warcraft now has an unwanted special feature—a hidden program called “Warden” that snoops gamers’ computers looking for any "unauthorized third-party program" that “enables or facilitates cheating of any type.” According to Greg Hoglund, co-author of "Exploiting Software, How to Break Code," this hidden program opens every process on a gamer’s computer, from email programs to privacy managers, and sniffs...

THEY are called echizen kurage and they sound like monsters from the trashier reaches of Japanese science fiction. They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorise the people of Japan. Vast armadas of the slimy horrors have cut off the country’s food supply. As soon as one is killed more appear to take its place. Finally, the quarrelsome governments of the region are banding together to unite against the enemy. Echizen kurage is not an extraterrestrial invader, but a giant jellyfish that is devastating the livelihoods of...

He may look like an innocent cartoon bunny, but the star of a new award-winning video game by a Montreal-based designer has sultry intentions in mind. Lapis, the blue-hued main character of a prototype video game by Heather Kelley, a designer with Ubisoft, wants to help women take a "magical pet adventure'' to their "happy place.'' The prototype teaches how to reach orgasm by simulating the affect of pleasurable sensation on the cartoon. Players tickle, touch, tap, and stroke Lapis using the touch screen of the Nintendo DS, a hand-held video game device. They can also talk, sing and blow...

Founder of veganism whose dietary crusade grew to attract a quarter of a million adherents in Britain today DONALD WATSON survived to the age of 95; good propaganda in his campaign to convince the world that there is nothing inherently lethal about a vegan diet. He always regarded himself as a propagandist, in the term’s non-pejorative sense. When interviewed at 92 he was pleased to report that he had lived thus far without resort to medication “either orthodox or fringe”, and with hardly a day’s illness. His parents were meat-eaters who did not enjoy particularly good health or long lives....

Decades of lecturing around America and of speaking with parents on my radio show have led me to an incredible conclusion: More American parents would be upset with their teenage children if they smoked a cigarette than if they cheated on a test. [clip] There has been a profound change in American values. In a nutshell, health has overtaken morality. Or, if you prefer, health has become our morality.More...

WELCOME to Cold War City (population: 4). It covers 240 acres and has 60 miles of roads and its own railway station. It even includes a pub called the Rose and Crown. The most underpopulated town in Britain is being put on the market. But there will be no estate agent’s blurb extolling the marvellous views of the town for sale: true, it has a Wiltshire address, but it is 120ft underground. The subterranean complex that was built in the 1950s to house the Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan’s cabinet and 4,000 civil servants in the event of a Soviet...

When Jake Walker upsets his girlfriend, Jaci Boydston, he might buy her flowers. When Jaci feels she owes an apology to Jake, she agrees to play a round of the Nintendo fighting game "Super Smash Brothers." Jaci and Jake, who both attend Kansas State University, are a modern couple dealing with a modern issue. One of them is a gamer; the other is not. Theirs is not an unusual plight. For decades gamers and non-gamers in love have struggled to find harmony. At Kansas State the frustration is rampant. Like most college campuses, it is a place where the release...

Breaking story coming. I was just listening to the news on KFAB radio (Omaha, NE) and heard of a story about a boy who was bitten by a pit bull. The boy is facing the prospect of rabies shots because the owners of the pit bull are refusing to cooperate with authorities to have the dog checked by a vet. According to the story that was read, the owners have hidden the dog from authorities. I cannot find the written story, yet, but will post when I find it.

BEIJING - At a ceremony today in China's Great Hall of the People, AMD (NYSE:AMD) executives signed agreements with the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and Peking University to license AMD x86 microprocessor design technology that will enable Chinese development of low-power and embedded computer solutions for consumer and commercial markets. AMD also announced the contribution of US$750,000 to support technology deployment for primary education in rural China and opened a new headquarters for AMD Greater China. "AMD and China share a deep mutual respect for the ability of technology to promote economic and educational opportunities," said AMD...

A good friend of mine from school is in the lead, running for newscaster on one of our city radio stations Sonic 102.9. Please FReep this poll (at the bottom of the page), and vote for Kory Read. He is a good guy, not a Pinko, and a great friend who I have never once heard bash America or Bush (and I'm living in Canada!!). If we can have a big enough impact on the results, I will try to convince him to throw a few UN-Bashing jabs on the air in Edmonton,AB, on behalf of FReeRepublic (I can't promise...

1 hour, 49 minutes ago DES MOINES, Iowa - A man who immigrated from Kenya to the United States found prosperity beyond his expectations on the day he became a U.S. citizen. Shortly after Moses Bittok, of West Des Moines, took the oath of citizenship on Friday, he discovered he had a $1.89 million winning ticket from the Iowa Lottery's Hot Lotto game. "It's almost like you adopted a country and then they netted you $1.8 million," Bittok said Monday as he cashed in his ticket. "It doesn't happen anywhere — I guess only in America." Bittok said he took...

I have a great idea for a Cindy Sheehan single-panel cartoon, but alas! I cannot even draw a decent stick-figure...So, is there a competent FReeper cartoonist out there I can commission for a cartoon *cough*pro bono*cough*?

Does anyone know about the Center for Media & Democracy? A student in a class I am taking posted a link from their website in response to an end of class discussion about Walmart that poured on the the class discussion board. It is about how Walmart affects our lives and some students offered opinions. This class is about things in our environment and how they affect us. The teacher is very balanced (refreshingly) for a college professor, he also believes there needs to be a balance of for example, capitalism and conservation. He wants us to think, which is...

Bill Hemmer joined Fox News Channel (FNC) as a weekday anchor and correspondent in August 2005. For the past 10 years, Hemmer worked as an anchor and correspondent at CNN where he most recently co-hosted American Morning. While there, he also anchored CNN Live Today and CNN Tonight...