http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/moredirt/ en-us Sun, 11 May 2008 17:30:09 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014445/posts Choir director at White House Hopeful's controversial Chicago church shot to death. Presidential hopeful Barack [Hussein] Obama has become tangled in a gay-murder probe rocking his controversial Chicago church as insiders ask: How much does he really know about the choir director's savage slaying? So far, Chicago cops' investigation into the murder of the Trinity United Christian Church's gay choir director has come up empty. But a top Chicago private detective tells GLOBE he believes the shooting death of 47-year-old Donald Young may be connected to Obama, who belongs to the church once headed by scandal-scarred preacher the ["]Rev.["] Jeremiah... The Globe (yes, I know!) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014445/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 17:30:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475044/posts LOS ANGELES - From a lofty perch atop a Martian hill, NASA's Spirit rover has been soaking in a commanding view of a vast horizon since completing a difficult climb to the summit late last month. On Thursday, scientists released the first full-color panoramic picture of the landscape taken by the rover from its lookout point, showing the rover's tracks in the dust, flat plains of the surrounding Gusev Crater region, rugged terrain dubbed "the geologic promised land" by one scientist, distant plateaus on the crater rim and more hills. The solar-powered Spirit's yearlong ascent to the peak of Husband... ap on Monterey Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475044/posts#comment Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:49:26 GMT