http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/morons/ en-us Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:04:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402789/posts U.S. envoy Bosworth arrives in Pyongyang: N. Korean media SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. envoy on North Korea arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday, the North's media said, in the highest-level visit to the communist nation since the Barack Obama administration took power in Washington early this year. Stephen Bosworth and his entourage "arrived in Sunan Airport" just outside the capital, the Korean Central News Agency said. Bosworth departed from the U.S. Osan air base in South Korea at around 2 p.m. on a three-day mission to bring the North back to a multilateral forum on its nuclear program Yonhap News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402789/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:04:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391249/posts AUSTIN – Here's what I did not hear at the annual confab of Republican governors held here this week: The words socialist, extremist, or government takeover. With the focus on jobs, jobs and jobs, the only red meat was the Texas barbecue. And by design, there was no Obama-bashing. [snip] Barbour cautioned Republican candidates to refrain from attacking the president, period: "People want the president to succeed; good Lord, they want the country to succeed, and particularly the first African-American president has a lot of goodwill. . . . We need to be careful, we need to treat the president... Politics Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391249/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:11:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385239/posts Here is video of former President George W. Bush today in a speech he gave at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, admitting that he went "against" his "free market instincts" when he decided to move forward with the Wall Street Bailouts in the Fall of 2008. But Bush warned: "History shows that the greater threat to prosperity is not too little government involvement, but too much."That's exactly right. He should have stuck to his principles and instincts. Obama is sticking to his principles and instincts in trying to ratchet up government involvement in everything to the greatest extent possible. Bush... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385239/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:38:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375574/posts Oct 30, 2009 — “Plant fossils give first real picture of earliest Neotropical rainforests,” announced a press release from University of Florida.  The fossils from Colombia show that “many of the dominant plant families existing in today’s Neotropical rainforests – including legumes, palms, avocado and banana – have maintained their ecological dominance despite major changes in South America’s climate and geological structure.” The team found 2,000 megafossil specimens from the Paleocene, said to be 58 million years old.  This is only 5 to 8 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs according to conventional dating.  “The new study provides... CEH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375574/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:39:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367720/posts 2012 Doomsday Not Likely, Mayans Insist Mark Stevenson, Associated Press   Oct. 12, 2009 -- Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world. Or is it? Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff." It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the... Discovery News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367720/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:40:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358189/posts The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2009 to US President Barak Obama. The Nobel Peace Prize is an international prize which is awarded annually by the Norwegian Nobel Committee according to guidelines laid down in Alfred Nobel's will. The Peace Prize is one of five prizes that have been awarded annually since 1901 under the auspices of the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm for outstanding contributions in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. Starting in 1969, a Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has also been... Norway Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358189/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:11:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2324944/posts A replica of a mildewed 14th- century scroll has been unfurled and displayed at a library in New York. An eagle clutching arrows and ribbons, on a tattered flag made around 1803, has just been restored and framed for viewing at a Philadelphia museum. Near Boston a museum exhibition decodes cryptic symbols like compasses and columns embossed on metal badges and embroidered onto aprons. That the public is now being enthusiastically shown these previously hidden-away items indicates that Freemasons in America are trying to shed their reclusive, somewhat fusty image. Tour guides at the groups’ lavishly ornamented lodges, mostly built... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2324944/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:58:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324764/posts RESTON, Va. -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Moran faced a storm at a town hall meeting in his Northern Virginia district Tuesday night, with thousands of shouting activists packed into a high school gymnasium to argue for and against a health care overhaul, flanked by dozens of police officers, television cameras and Washington reporters. A rabbi's opening prayer and a Boy Scout troop's recitation of the pledge of allegiance at the start of the meeting failed to calm the crowd, which had begun competing chants almost as soon as they took their seats. Hundreds of supporters of the president yelled,... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324764/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:18:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2319042/posts Monday night’s Red Eye gave us some insight into the ultra-worthless life of media tool Levi Johnston, father of Sarah Palin’s grandson. Bravo’s Andy Cohen asked if Levi, after posing shirtless for GQ magazine, might ever pose nude. Why would anyone care? Red Eye host Greg Gutfeld put it simply: “He is 17 years old, he’s an idiot, have will have no potential to make money in his life…because he’s an IDIOT.” Last week’s Red Eye also discussed Levi’s latest rambling for www.radaronline.com. He has spoken about how Sarah Palin “took money” and ran from her government post. See more... NewsReal Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2319042/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:04:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318831/posts California turned down an offer made by Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to house several thousand of its prisoners, citing cost considerations as well as a lack of mental-health resources and security coverage. A letter written to the Michigan Department of Corrections by California Department of Corrections Secretary Matthew L. Cate said the decision was due in part to costs. Michigan's offer was more costly than what California currently pays to house prisoners in private facilities in other states. A copy of the letter was made available to The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Gov. Granholm is now left to decide... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318831/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:17:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2267387/posts Bad news for those living in “Middle America.” Actress Megan Fox would like Megatron, the evil character from her new movie “Transformers,” to blow you up. Kat Giantis, of Wonderwall, reported the actress was recently interviewed by “Total Film UK.” Although nobody asked her who she would like Megatron to obliterate, she volunteered it anyway. Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2267387/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 19:06:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250563/posts This week’s endorsement of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist by senior Senate Republicans is being cheered by GOP senators as a move toward the middle. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) endorsed Crist over former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, a protégé of former Gov. Jeb Bush and a more conservative candidate. The decision by McConnell and Cornyn was the first such choice since last month’s defection of Arlen Specter to the Senate’s Democratic conference. Moderate GOP senators like Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine used that opportunity to publicly warn the... The Hill, Washington, DC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250563/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 04:24:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249054/posts Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's (R) camp is not happy with Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele's suggestion that base Republicans had a problem with the 2008 presidential candidate's Mormonism. On Monday, Romney's camp responded to the comments Steele made Friday while guest-hosting a conservative radio show, comments a Romney spokesman said were ill-considered. . . . . . Camp Romney fired off a quick response: "Sometimes when you shoot from the hip you miss the target. This is one of those times," Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom told The Hill. After the Romney team expressed its displeasure, Steele offered an... The Hill, Washington, DC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249054/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 04:41:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213702/posts LONDON, March 22 (UPI) -- Disability activists say they're backing a British mother given a $145 parking ticket when she stopped to revive her severely disabled son. 2009 United Press International, Inc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213702/posts#comment Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:32:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2197943/posts The number 1 recc'd Diary at Daily KOS (Lamestream media chat site) is an article about our responses to Obama's release of Secret documents pertaining to the War today, under the title above. (I refuse to give KOS the hits by linking, it's on the front page if you want to read it.) Given how KOS diaries seem to magicly end up as MSM pundit talking points within hours, I think we better be informed of this. It goes on like this: "As an attorney who spent her formative practice years defending the Constitution, all I can say about what... TCRLAF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2197943/posts#comment Tue, 3 Mar 2009 07:59:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197722/posts Global warming activists stormed Washington Monday for what was billed as the nation's largest act of civil disobedience to fight climate change -- only to see the nation's capital virtually shut down by a major winter storm. Schools and businesses were shuttered, lawmakers cancelled numerous appearances and the city came to a virtual standstill as Washington was blasted with its heaviest snowfall of the winter. It spelled about six inches of trouble for global warming activists who had hoped to swarm the Capitol by the thousands in an effort to force the government to close the Capitol Power Plant, which... fox news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197722/posts#comment Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:59:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195285/posts Republicans who endorsed Barack Obama include: Christopher Buckley - Conservative columnist (and son of National Review founder William F. Buckley) on why he supported and would vote for Obama: As for Senator Obama: He has exhibited throughout a "first-class temperament". .... I've read Obama's books, and they are first-rate. He is that rara avis, the politician who writes his own books. Imagine. ... ...having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren't going to get us out of this pit we've dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195285/posts#comment Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:04:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181205/posts President Barack Obama has said he regards Karzai as unreliable and ineffective. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said he presided over a "narco-state." The Americans making Afghan policy, worried that the war is being lost, are vowing to bypass Karzai and deal directly with the governors in the countryside. At home, Karzai faces a widening insurgency and a population that blames him for the lack of economic progress and the corrupt officials that seem to stand at every doorway of his government. His face, which once adorned the walls of tea shops across the country, is today much less... Dallas News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181205/posts#comment Sun, 8 Feb 2009 23:58:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2177388/posts It's 9 a.m. on my only day off this week. I've got a few things to take care of this afternoon, but for now, I was enjoying a little time on the couch. A documentary about the dust storms across the midwest in the 30's was playing on the History channel, providing a little background noise while I dozed a little. It was nice. But that all changed with a phone call. I knew I should have turned off the ringer when I hit the couch. I croaked a "figures-you-would-have-to-call-just-when-I-was-falling-asleep" hello? The voice on the other end belonged to a... Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2177388/posts#comment Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:19:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175746/posts New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg “would never allow his seat to go to a Democrat,” says a Republican close to President Obama’s presumptive pick for Commerce Secretary. “The only way he would allow it is if he died.” Buzz today is that if Gregg took the gig, his replacement would share parties with New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat. (If Al Franken is deemed the winner here in Minnesota, the Dems would then secure a veto filibuster-proof majority.) But The Hill now reports that Republicans are saying Gregg will only take the job if he’s guaranteed that the seat... The Minnesota Independent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175746/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:13:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171445/posts Remember this lady? Wonder when I'll get my Maryjanes? Click on videolink to reminisce. HopieChangie.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171445/posts#comment Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:56:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169264/posts United Nations organizations said yesterday that it will investigate complaints that Israel used depleted uranium projectiles in the course of the fighting in Gaza, causing health and environmental damage. The inquiry will be conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Environment Protection Organization, at the request of the Arab states' UN envoys. Israel yesterday denied using uranium-depleted munitions during the Gaza Strip offensive and said that this could be proven by any UN investigation. The Foreign Ministry's foreign press spokesman called these accusations blatant, groundless propaganda. "We will investigate the matter to... haaretz.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169264/posts#comment Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:37:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2165739/posts Tom Hanks, Executive Producer for HBO’s controversial polygamist series “Big Love,” made his feelings toward the Mormon Church’s involvement in California's Prop 8 (which prohibits gay marriage) very clear at the show’s premiere party on Wednesday night. www.foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2165739/posts#comment Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:46:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2162601/posts Snow wasn't the only thing that fell Saturday: so did pants - and jaws - on the subway. Hundreds of brave New Yorkers dropped their bottoms in Saturday's sub-freezing temperatures before taking to the rails for the eighth annual No Pants Subway Ride. "They couldn't have picked a better day to do this?" asked John Ocskai, 18, of Long Island, wearing a pair of spiffy gray boxers. "This is my first time. I was shocked it was still going on." Dana Sterling, 33, was shivering even before she stripped down to her three pairs of undies. "I'm cold already," Sterling... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2162601/posts#comment Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2161178/posts Musician Chris Llewellyn was among those who sprang into action after a man shoved a flight attendant and tried to open an exit door. Chris Llewellyn was staring out the window of Delta Airlines Flight 110, watching the landscape of Los Angeles rise up toward the plane, when he heard the screams of a male flight attendant: "Help me! Help me!" Turning quickly, he saw that a passenger had pushed the attendant to the floor and was trying to open the rear emergency exit. Chris Llewellyn Video: Passengers take down man..."Don't come near me," the man warned. "I have a... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2161178/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:48:16 GMT