http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/moonbat/ en-us Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:19:15 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413431/posts The morning broadcasters, Jack Bishop and Rich Hancock, announced this morning that their organization,"Rational Radio" would be off the air as of Jan 1, 2010. Rational Radio leased this station 24/7 from the Multicultural Broadcast Corp. The rest of the local talkers on this station were discussing their plans thruout the day. Most of them trashing broadcast radio and corporations in general. They are claiming that broadcast radio is dead and Internet Radio is where it is at. 1360AM Dallas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413431/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:19:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409963/posts A Superior woman accused of holding a knife close to the neck of an anti-abortion demonstrator outside of Duluth’s Building for Women last month pleaded not guilty to an assault charge today in St. Louis County District Court. Mechelle Tallulah Hall, 26, is charged with second-degree assault in the alleged Nov. 24 incident. At her initial appearance, last month, Hall told the court, “I know what I did was wrong.” Hall waived a hearing to challenge evidence against her. Judge John DeSanto scheduled Hall’s next hearing for Feb. 16 with a trial scheduled for Feb. 23. The defendant is accused... Duluth News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409963/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:27:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405429/posts No world leader has ever surpassed the accomplishments of former South African President Nelson Mandela. So says actor Matt Damon, who plays rugby team captain Francois Pienaar in Clint Eastwood's Nelson Mandela film, "Invictus," which opens nationwide Friday. “Mandela convinced everybody to not go to war. That involves a lot of personal responsibility," Damon told Tarts at last week’s Los Angeles premiere. "South Africa had the greatest political leader in the world in our lifetime. Period.” The film covers the months in 1995 after Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa after decades of white apartheid rule, a time... FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405429/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:59:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404969/posts And here we were thinking that slap-stick humor died out with the legendary Charlie Chaplin. If you haven't already heard, a 33 year-old man in Minnesota by the name of Jeremy Paul Olson was arrested yesterday for chucking tomatoes at Sarah Palin during a Mall of America book signing. Olson attempted the tomato barrage from the second floor balcony, but unfortunately missed Sarah and her husband Todd both by about ten feet. He did, however, hit nearby police officers (one right in the face!), which is probably the only reason that he was truly taken into custody. That is, I... Lilly Likes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404969/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:48:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2403155/posts 2009 will probably go down as the Year of Stupid. Everywhere you look you see birthers, deathers, deniers, tea fetishists, and semi-literate amateur pundits screaming and frothing over their unsupported, repeatedly debunked line of argument. They are wrong. Dead wrong. Distractingly, even dangerously wrong. And since they will not, or more likely cannot, understand this fact they go on screaming and frothing in a fruitless quest for validation. They'll disrupt town hall meetings, Congressional addresses, and children's birthday parties to remind you, just in case you allowed yourself to forget for even a moment, of just how painfully stupid they... Ridiculopathy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2403155/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 21:28:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402904/posts Author Nonie Darwish, whose new book warns of the advance of Islamic law in the West, completed a scheduled speech at Boston University but not without the interruption of an apparent arson in a nearby restroom. Darwish, whose recently scheduled addresses at both Columbia and Princeton were canceled following Islamic opposition, said the students who arranged her Boston University appearance this week believe the fire was an attempt to hinder her message. "I am still in shock," she said in an e-mail to supporters. "Fifteen minutes before I was to speak at Boston University a fire was set on purpose... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402904/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:28:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402349/posts According to a criminal complaint, 41-year -old Stephen Louis Olson of Backus was angry the county planned to log the trees. Cass County officials say the stand is thinned every ten to 15 years. About 100 of the 600 trees were slated to be cut down and sold this month. The money would have benefitted the community and school district. - Authorities say the entire forest must be cut down due to safety concerns. Mike Diekmann of the Cass County Sheriff's Office says that if a saw hit one of the nails, "it would explode like a gun going off"... kare11.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402349/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:12:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397826/posts When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world's peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country's government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee's tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I've broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto. The Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397826/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:02:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397255/posts Conspiracy theorists awaiting Wednesday night's premiere of "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura" might take interest in a curious comment Ventura made in the Los Angeles Times this weekend. Ventura, who has been doing the media rounds promoting his new venture on TruTV, told the paper that MSNBC cancelled his show "Jesse Ventura's America" in 2003 because he did not support the Iraq War. He said the network "in essence" paid him to be silent, which allowed him to purchase a house in Mexico. This is not your first venture into TV hosting since leaving the governorship. What happened to "Jesse... StarTribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397255/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:44:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388768/posts EDITORIAL November 16, 2009 There are 16 million children in immigrant families in the United States, one of the fastest-growing segments of the population. It’s an old American story made new (snip) when waves of human displacement in recent decades have led to immigration on a scale not seen since Ellis Island. But a country that has been so good for so long at integrating new Americans is stumbling under the challenge. That is the conclusion of Professors Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco, fellows at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and co-directors of immigration studies at New York University.... NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388768/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:40:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383563/posts A Widow Paints A Health Care Protest by Joseph Shapiro On a humid day this summer, in a parking lot at the long back wall of a gas station, Regina Holliday stood on a scaffold with her palette of red, black and blue and started painting a mural. At the center, there's a dying man in a hospital. It's Regina Holliday's husband, Fred. He died on June 17th of kidney cancer. He was 39 years old, with his wife and two young sons. For official Washington, this has been the season of health care overhaul. Fred and Regina's personal health... NPR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383563/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:27:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/2375538/posts Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson (R) is setting up a new political group to potentially set up a run for the White House. The former two-term governor, known for his libertarian leanings, is setting up a new 527 group, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican, over which he'll preside as an "honorary chairman." The move raises the specter that Johnson might wage a bid for the GOP -- or Libertarian Party -- nomination for president in 2012. Candidates often set up groups, more frequently Political Action Committees (PACs) to raise money for or support other candidates. Johnson said... The Hill, Washington, DC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/2375538/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:26:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369792/posts The blogosphere was abuzz today with reports that Barack Obama's undergraduate thesis from Columbia University – in which he allegedly called free market capitalism "tyranny" and slammed the Constitution for fitting Americans with "shackles of hypocrisy" – has been revealed. Only, the reported source of the document, Joe Klein of Time magazine, has publicly declared the whole thing a hoax. "A report is circulating among the wingnuts that I had a peek at Barack Obama's senior thesis," Klein writes on Time's Swampland blog site. "It is completely false. I've never seen Obama's thesis. I have no idea where this report... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369792/posts#comment Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:32:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361012/posts Over at HuffPo, Russell Simmons has let go of the wheel and bounced off a guard rail. His apocalyptic melodrama sounds like the typical Hollywood cliche of a Christian right-winger. But these lefties are all about projection, so that’s to be expected. A normal celebucrat post has a pull quote or two you can highlight and make sport of, but Simmons is all pull quote — a bonanza of crazy — so where to begin? Hey, I know, let’s play a game. Here are ten quotes, nine are from Simmons, one is not. Can you pick out the lunacy that... Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361012/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:35:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352488/posts The Obama revolution, and there was the hope of one, might still succeed. But only if Barack Obama follows the model of the incredibly successful Reagan revolution and heeds the political base that made his presidency possible. Love him or not, Ronald Reagan had at least one outstanding political virtue - his respect for the concerns of those who placed their trust in him. And whenever the political vultures that feast on power tried to lead him astray, they were fired at the insistence of Reagan or his remarkably savvy wife, Nancy. Hopefully Obama and his no-less-impressive mate, Michelle, will... Creator's Syndicate via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352488/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:46:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344907/posts Another moment of lunacy from this nation’s biggest Oval Office mistake of the 20th century — which may be akin to saying “water is still wet,” but we should be keeping a tally. While in Columbia, former President Jimmy Carter told an interviewer that the Bush administration “could have been involved” in the 2002 coup attempt against Venezuelan wanna-be dictator Hugo Chavez. Dan Calabrese unloads on America’s worst ex-president: On Sunday, Jimmeh told the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo that he believes the Bush Administration was likely behind a coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002 in Venezuela. “I think there is... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344907/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:07:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341931/posts Keith Olbermann is not one to pass up an opportunity to attack anything that even hints at being right of center. The repugnant MSNBC host devoted some three-quarters of his Sept. 16 show to claim criticism of President Barack Obama had to have elements of racism, no matter how you sliced it. And therefore, those critics were all despicable human beings, end of story. However, he did manage to find time to revert to old tried and true method of appeasing his angry left-wing desires - a little bashing of former Republican vice-presidential nominee and Gov. Sarah Palin, with an... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341931/posts#comment Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:56:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336081/posts BERKELEY — Six months after Tristan Anderson, a former UC Berkeley tree sitter and Bay Area activist, nearly died after being struck in the head with a tear-gas canister fired by Israeli troops, friends are holding a benefit Sunday to raise money for his recovery costs. Anderson, 38, remains at a rehabilitation hospital near Tel Aviv and continues to have setbacks and infections after skull surgery last month, supporters said. The operation came after doctors learned Anderson was suffering from post-traumatic hydrocephalus, a blockage of the ventricles — open spaces in the brain — that causes poor circulation of cerebral... Oakland Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336081/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:54:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333192/posts AP via MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333192/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2009 04:17:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328955/posts In Connecticut, we have about 13 separate Mini Tea Parties throughout the state, one each day of the week for Mon thru Saturday, some days have 2, some days have as many as 3 per day! Today in Cheshire, an Obama Health Care supporter drove by me and 62 other Patriots who were at the weekly Monday Tea Party in Cheshire, Connectuicut. self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328955/posts#comment Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:09:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328725/posts "Luckily, the effect is expected to be relatively small, and shouldn’t induce any negative feedback in the planet’s climate. It just needs to be taken into account when interpreting shifts in Earth’s axis." New Scientist and EarthFirst http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328725/posts#comment Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:10:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324582/posts Cindy Sheehan, the peace activist who camped out in the summer of 2005 near President Bush’s Texas ranch, is heading for President Obama’s vacation site in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. Ms. Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in the Iraq war, said in a press release Monday that she would hold a press conference Wednesday morning at the Oak Bluff’s Elementary School on the island resort. That is where the White House press corps is working during the president’s vacation. “We need to give the president the moral backbone he needs” to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sheehan said... The Christian Science Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324582/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:44:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323716/posts Sen. Russ Feingold D-WI says bring'em home regarding the troops in Afghanistan, cites a lack of strategy and believes that increase in troops is not a wise idea. Today, in a meeting with the editorial board of The Post-Crescent in Appleton, Wis., Sen. Feingold called for a flexible timetable to bring our troops out of Afghanistan. Per an e-mail announcement, Feingold said: "After eight years, I am not convinced that simply pouring more and more troops into Afghanistan is a well thought out strategy. And I have raised this issue with the President, with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs... Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323716/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:32:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310520/posts I AM AS HAPPY as anyone at signs of an economic recovery. But I confess to having mixed feelings about the resurgence of the wing-nut industry. We now have “The Birthers’’ manufacturing myths that President Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is serving illegally. They are following the business plan of those earlier entrepreneurs selling the idea that Obama had killed his grandma. Consider the scare-biz Internet scribe who penned the memorable line: “Obama flies to Hawaii to visit his grandmother and just a few days later she winds up dead. Coincidence? Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310520/posts#comment Fri, 7 Aug 2009 14:34:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304217/posts Daily Kos user aggregatescience reported that MSNBC / CNBC’s Donny Deutsch has called for a boycott of Glenn Beck’s advertisers due to Beck’s asinine claim that President Obama is a racist. Deutch announced the charge on his show, The Big Idea: DEUTSCH: He called this president a ‘racist’ and a ‘hatred of white people’, okay? This has to stop. Here’s the only way this stops. The reason this man does this, this Glenn Beck does this, is because it attracts viewers, it creates controversy… If you’re an African-American or white American who’s tired of this kind of talk, write to... FoxNewsBoycott http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304217/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:38:43 GMT