http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/notthiscrapagain/ en-us Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:52:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942792/posts Romney On MLK Recollections: Look Up "Saw" In The Dictionary Mitt Romney has been forced to get into some serious verbal gymnastics over his previous declaration about seeing his father, the late Michigan Gov. George Romney, marching with Martin Luther King. A close examination of the historical records shows that the elder Romney, while he was a strong support of civil rights, never actually appeared with King. "I've tried to be as accurate as I can be," Romney told reporters. "If you look at the literature or look at the dictionary, the term 'saw' includes being aware of — in... TPM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942792/posts#comment Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:52:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900194/posts "A priest in Stockholm has come under fire for not allowing a bride to be walked down the aisle by her father. But church authorities have defended the decision, saying that the tradition is foreign and sexist. The row started when a bride due to marry on Saturday in a church in the Stockholm archipelago asked to be given away by her father. The priest conducting the ceremony refused the bride's request. "These are two equal people, and being given away has never been a Swedish tradition," said Rev Yvonne Hallin, priest in charge of the Church of Sweden parish... The Local http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900194/posts#comment Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:56:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896580/posts Kanzius and Penn State Chemist Rostum RoyPosted September 14th, 2007 by Categories: Water Desalination Research and Development Back in June I posted extensively about John Kanzius RF machine that cracked hydrogen out of saltwater. His last comments at the time were that he believed that his device had achieved unity–and therefor he would go silent. (That is, unlike electrolysis which is about 72% efficient–Kanzius believed his machine was +100–meaning he believed his machine produced more energy than it consumed. Needless to say, everyone around the net has said this is impossible.)There have been a flurry of new articles this week... Desalination Research And Development http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896580/posts#comment Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:32:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1865124/posts In an act of jaw-dropping hubris, Pope Benedict Joseph Ratzinger recently declared Protestantism's churches "not true churches." In an effort to underscore the wisdom of such a position at this time, he then had his "document" signed by none other than Cardinal William Levada, a pro-gay, pro-pedophile, pro-molestation cleric hailing recently from San Francisco and Portland. Apparently hypocrisy is in abundant supply in the Vatican larder. Levada is one of the papal appointments that causes either great puzzlement about (or gives great insight into) this Pope's orientation. Fresh off of scandals in his previous appointments, Levada received one of the... Bloggers & Personal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1865124/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:25:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747166/posts Violent protesters disrupt Tancredo event 'Radical leftists' on campus assault organizer, pull fire alarm Posted: December 1, 2006 1:15 p.m. Eastern Students debate at Michigan State University event featuring Rep. Tom Tancredo (Photo: The State News) Protesters at Michigan State University set off a fire alarm and assaulted a student organizer at an event last night on illegal immigration that featured Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., who began his speech amid a mixture of boos and applause. Kyle Bristow, chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, which sponsored the event with the school's College Republicans, said he was kicked and spat upon... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747166/posts#comment Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:15:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740123/posts MADRID, Spain — Burger King Corp. should yank an ad campaign for its monster XXL burger _ the caloric equivalent of eating 10 fried eggs _ because it violates a Spanish initiative against obesity, the Health Ministry said Thursday. The ministry said it had been asking the fast-food chain to abandon the campaign for more than a week because the commercials go against an agreement signed by the Spanish Federation of Hoteliers and Restaurateurs, of which Burger King is a member. Under the agreement, members of the federation said they would refrain from promoting huge servings of food, the health... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740123/posts#comment Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:34:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735415/posts President Bush yesterday said he will team up with Democrats to pass an immigration bill with a guest-worker program that his own party blocked this year, and his Republican opponents predicted a bloody intraparty fight but said they cannot stop such a bill from passing. "We will fight it, we will lose. It will go to the Senate, it will pass. The president will sign it. And it will happen quickly because that's one thing they know they can pass," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican and chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus, who had led the opposition to... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735415/posts#comment Thu, 9 Nov 2006 10:14:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700669/posts NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The number of homes entering into some stage of foreclosure is surging, according to a survey released Wednesday. In August, 115,292 properties entered into foreclosure, according to RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure sales. That was 24 percent above the level in July and 53 percent higher than a year earlier. Where foreclosures are jumping Year over year gain in homes in foreclosure. Click for more stats on each state. Nevada: Up 255% California: Up 160% Florida: Up 62% It was the second highest monthly foreclosure total of the year; in February, 117,151 properties entered foreclosure.... CNN.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700669/posts#comment Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:31:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689540/posts Bowing to blogospheric criticism, Forbes deleted two articles from its Web site on Wednesday, one of which was titled "Don't marry career women." The article, written by Forbes.com executive editor Michael Noer, included excerpts from a series of social science papers and reported that long work hours for women consistently increase the odds of a divorce but similar jumps in men's work hours often don't. By itself, summarizing the relatively dry sociology literature probably wouldn't have drawn much of a response. But Noer was intentionally flip, advising in the first paragraph of his article: "Guys: A word of advice.... Whatever... C|net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689540/posts#comment Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:12:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688730/posts Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career. Why? Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage. While everyone knows that marriage can be stressful, recent studies have found professional women are more likely to get divorced, more likely to cheat, less likely to have children, and, if they do have kids, they are more likely to be unhappy about it. A recent study in Social Forces,... Forbes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688730/posts#comment Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:49:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680557/posts Mortgage trouble is creating some of the biggest bargains this side of eBay, allowing buyers to snap up homes for tens of thousands of dollars less than what they might have paid just a few months ago. "People are doing whatever they can to sell" in order to avoid foreclosure, said Brad Geisen, president and chief executive of Boca Raton-based Foreclosure.com. Notices of pending foreclosures are piling up, in what many believe to be the first wave of a trillion-dollar tsunami: The dollar volume of home loans with interest rates that will be ratcheted upward over the next several months.... Pal Beach Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680557/posts#comment Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:05:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1668399/posts The U.S. Department of Commerce appears to be stonewalling a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain complete disclosure of a congressionally unauthorized plan to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that apparently could lead to a North American union. The plan is being implemented through an office within the Department of Commerce as the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America," under the direction of Geri Word, who is listed as working in the department's North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, office. As WorldNetDaily previously reported, the White House has established executive branch working groups documented... WorldNet Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1668399/posts#comment Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:04:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1660577/posts NASCO has altered the organization’s website homepage, apparently in direct response to the North American Union series we have published here, including discussion of NASCO and NAFTA Super-Highways. NASCO appears to be reacting from recent publicity deriving from our argument that NASCO actively supports the goals of their members, including the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Kansas City SmartPort. TxDOT plans to start the first segment of the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as early as next year and the Kansas City SmartPort plans to house a Mexican customs operation within their Inland Port design. These are new infrastructure developments... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1660577/posts#comment Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:21:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1660573/posts A Mexican customs facility planned for Kansas City's inland port may have to be considered the sovereign soil of Mexico as part of an effort to lure officials in that country into cooperating with the Missouri development project. Despite adamant denials by Kansas City Area Development Council officials, WND has obtained emails and other documents from top executives with the KCSmartPort project that suggest such a facility would by necessity be considered Mexican territory – despite its presence in the heartland of the U.S. The documents were obtained with the assistance of Joyce Mucci, the founder of the Mid-America Immigration... WorldNet Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1660573/posts#comment Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:05:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1657679/posts The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), signed by President Bush with Mexico and Canada in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005, was fundamentally an agreement to erase our borders with Mexico and Canada. As I have documented below, the SPP “working groups” organized within the U.S. Department of Transportation are signing trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements with Mexico and Canada designed to accomplish the open borders goal incrementally, below the radar of mainstream media attention, thereby avoiding public scrutiny. Congress is largely unaware that SPP exists, let alone knowledgeable about the extensive work being done behind the scenes... HumanEventsOnline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1657679/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:06:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1655724/posts Last Thursday in a radio interview with the 55KRC Morning Show in Cincinnati, Tiffany Melvin, executive director of North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, told host Jerry Thomas that my June 12 Human Events article on NASCO was “absolutely inaccurate.” Melvin declined to be interview for this article, stating in an e-mail her current priority was to answer the “accusations, bad information, and false assumptions” in the June 12 article. “After I have a chance to get my life back and return to a normal schedule, I will contact you,” she wrote. “In the meantime, I will continue to respond to the... Human Events Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1655724/posts#comment Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:16:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1655304/posts Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway By Jerome R. Corsi Human Events 6-14-6 Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn. Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman's Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1655304/posts#comment Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:40:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1649382/posts Author Jerome Corsi and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., will be guests tomorrow on G. Gordon Liddy's radio show to discuss the White House's effort to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that could lead to a North American union, despite having no authorization from Congress. Corsi and Tancredo will join Liddy for the entire 11 a.m. hour, Eastern time, and take calls from listeners. Corsi reported this week that Bush administration working groups have not disclosed the results of their work despite two years of massive effort within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. The... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1649382/posts#comment Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:22:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648437/posts Despite having no authorization from Congress, the Bush administration has launched extensive working-group activity to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada. The membership of the working groups has not been published, nor has their work product been disclosed, despite two years of massive effort within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. The groups, working under the North American Free Trade Association office in the Department of Commerce, are to implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, signed by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, on... WorldNet Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648437/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:08:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1636175/posts The idea to form the North American Union as a super-NAFTA knitting together Canada, the United States and Mexico into a super-regional political and economic entity was a key agreement resulting from the March 2005 meeting held at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., between President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin. Human Events Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1636175/posts#comment Mon, 22 May 2006 07:55:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595297/posts Environmental groups are suing the Interior Department to block expanded oil and gas exploration in an ecologically sensitive area of Alaska's North Slope. The 18-page lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Juneau focuses on the government's decision in January to allow drillers to lease previously closed acreage in the northeast corner of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The Bush administration's decision opens up 389,000 acres for leasing, giving drillers a chance to find and produce an estimated 2 billion barrels of oil and 3.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the tundra north and east of Teshekpuk Lake.... Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595297/posts#comment Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:06:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1525420/posts An exhibition celebrating the life of Charles Darwin has failed to find a corporate sponsor because American companies are anxious not to take sides in the heated debate between scientists and fundamentalist Christians over the theory of evolution.The entire $3 million (£1.7 million) cost of Darwin, which opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York yesterday, is instead being borne by wealthy individuals and private charitable donations.The failure of American companies to back what until recently would have been considered a mainstream educational exhibition reflects the growing influence of fundamentalist Christians, who are among President George W... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1525420/posts#comment Sun, 20 Nov 2005 03:11:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520639/posts Have you seen JibJabs "BIG BOX MART" ? http://jibjab.com/Movies/MovieList.aspx http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520639/posts#comment Sat, 12 Nov 2005 05:25:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1502144/posts   No glowing testicles here... GREAT BALLS OF FIRE! Scientists in London have created a mosquito with glowing testicles in a bid to stamp out malaria.The male mosquitoes are genetically modified to make them infertile so when they mate with females, no more mosquitoes are produced. The mosquitoes' sperm has been made fluorescent green so they can be easily identified from females.This makes the mosquitoes' testicles glow under ultraviolet light, enabling scientists to separate the two sexes.The males are then sterilised and released into the wild, causing a crash in the local mosquito population within weeks.The team of researchers from... Sky News.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1502144/posts#comment Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:47:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1500391/posts I know that Google is very non-partisan. However, if you type in "failure" with out the qutation marks and click on "I'm feeling lucky", you'll end up at President Bush's Bio, on the White House web site. I don't know how long it will remain that way, but I just did it out of curiousity and sure enough it's true. It's totally disresectful but very predictable. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1500391/posts#comment Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:55:41 GMT