http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sourgrapes/ en-us Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:14:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192468/posts Sen. John McCain was concerned about his former rival's plan to buy a new fleet of Marine One helicopters that will cost $11.2 billion, an amount that is over-budget. Obama responds (via AP): Obama said the helicopter he has now seems adequate, adding that he never had a helicopter before and "maybe I've been deprived and I didn't know it." realclearpolitics.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192468/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:14:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131658/posts To my fellow bloggers: The next time you get an e-mail from someone saying it’s time to organize a conservative netroots, bear in mind that it’s these morons, by and large, whom that person wants you to support. The same people who couldn’t muster a judgment on the bailout independent of Nancy Pelosi being a big meanie, the same people who can’t organize a press conference without having it descend into backbiting and recriminations. Some Republican governors tell CNN they were not particularly happy with the way the Republican Governors Association press conference was executed Thursday, saying that they agreed... HotAir.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131658/posts#comment Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:15:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075827/posts Cindy McCain's half sister is planning on voting for Barack Obama, she tells Usmagazine.com. "I'm not voting for McCain," Kathleen Hensley Portalski tells Us. "I have a different political standpoint. "I'm voting for Obama," the Phoenix resident says. "I think his proposals to improve the country are more positive and I'm not a big war believer." Portalski, 65, and the potential first lady, 54, have the same father: Jim Hensley, the founder of the beer distributor Hensley and Co. that Cindy McCain now chairs. In an interview with NPR News' All Things Considered last week, Portalski said she felt "like... US http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075827/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:19:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051821/posts New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson slammed GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain today, calling his criticism of Barack Obama's trip to Europe and the Middle East as nothing more than "sour grapes." Richardson, one of Sen. Obama's most high-profile surrogates, also said that the Obama campaign was considering a trip to Latin America sometime prior to the November election. "There are discussions about it. He wants to emphasize that his administration would not be Europe-centric or only focused on the Middle East," said Richardson in an interview. The trip would also likely generate excitement among many of the country's Hispanic... The Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051821/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:33:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022394/posts Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war." McClellan includes the charges in a 341-page book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," that delivers a harsh look at the White House and the man he served for close to a decade. He describes Bush as demonstrating a "lack of inquisitiveness," says the White... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022394/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 12:30:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014002/posts Groom, many guests of one wedding will be on call for another - that of the president's daughter Saturday, May 10, 2008 WEST — Nora Bartosh has been waiting for her wedding, scheduled for today, for the past six years. Now, the 34-year-old West drugstore clerk is worried that a president's daughter could steal her groom and thus her special day. The groom, all eight groomsmen and about 150 of the guests work in McLennan County law enforcement. That leaves Bartosh hoping that everything goes smoothly in and around President Bush's Crawford-area ranch today as first daughter Jenna says her... Austin Pravda http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014002/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 12:41:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940336/posts I just got finished watching Mitt Romney's performance on "Meet the Press." Snip.. --On guns, he may have gotten himself in trouble, in an attempt to diffuse the flip-flop label, by standing by his support for the Brady Bill and the 1994 assault weapons ban. He even said he would have signed an extension of the assault weapons ban when it expired in 2004. He also employed the odd phrase "weapons of unusual lethality" to describe the type of guns he would ban. --On immigration, Romney was utterly Clintonian. He said that when in November 2005 he described the Bush/McCain... Spectator Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940336/posts#comment Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:33:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1915073/posts Helen Mirren has described the traumatic moment that influenced her decision not to have children. The Oscar winning actress revealed in a new interview that a sex education film she watched as a convent school girl was so "disgusting" it put her off motherhood for life. She said: "I went to a single sex convent school, and even in Biology classes we weren't taught about sexual reproduction. I was about 13, 14, just at that age where you begin to be self conscious about your physicality and about boys and all of that. "They sat us all down, girls and... The Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1915073/posts#comment Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:02:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912354/posts House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) blamed “hate radio” for demeaning children who were being used to lobby for an expansion of federally funded health insurance in a press conference late Tuesday morning. In the run-up to a House vote to override President Bush’s veto of a $35 billion increase to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, children like the 12-year old Graeme Frost---who suffered brain injuries after a car accident-- have been pushed to the forefront of the debate. Frost’s position as a so-called “poster child” for SCHIP became controversial when his family’s assets were investigated. This reporter asked... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912354/posts#comment Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:33:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908619/posts For the last 24 hours, I've not been able to turn on the television or pick up a newspaper without hearing about Clarence Thomas. I can't put my finger on the exact reason, but I find it unbecoming for a Supreme Court justice to publish a memoir to coincide with the new term of the court. I will concede, it's difficult to offer an intellectual argument to support my distaste; it's based on my emotional reaction rather than any wrongdoing on his part. I have a great appreciation for the Supreme Court and the justices. Their job is to operate... The Daily Iowan http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908619/posts#comment Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:16:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906700/posts The Associated Press NASHVILLE -- Tennessee's two Republican senators on Thursday voted in Washington against a non-binding resolution calling for continued support of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Sen. Bill Frist said the landmark decision is flawed; Sen. Fred Thompson said the Supreme Court should be left alone on the issue."I'm The vote came on a resolution by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. The resolution said: "It is the sense of the Congress that Roe v. Wade was an appropriate decision and secures an important constitutional right and such a decision should not be overturned." A... The Oak Ridger Online/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906700/posts#comment Thu, 4 Oct 2007 22:19:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906601/posts Here is Fred Thompson speaking on why he is running for President. He was speaking to the Des Moines Register Editorial Board. Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906601/posts#comment Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:36:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892053/posts When two Tunisian men were sent home after five years in Guantanamo, they thought they would be free. Instead, they faced imprisonment, abuse, threats and solitary confinement. Now they say things were better back in the US prison camp.Many of the detainees sitting in Guantanamo Bay hail from countries with a terrible record of torturing and abusing prisoners. While they may want to see an end to their ordeal in the US prison camp, they also have reason to dread the treatment they could face back home. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the US government is not doing enough... Der Spiegel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892053/posts#comment Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:52:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881120/posts Rove's Departure No Loss For America, Leaves Office Before Clearing the Air Karl Rove, chief architect of Bush's failed and reckless policies, resigns under a cloud of suspicion, refusing to testify before Congress regarding the US Attorneys scandal. Like so many senior Bush Administration officials before him, Rove's departure is marked by controversy -- not only over the US Attorneys scandal but his involvement in the Valerie Plame scandal where he leaked the name of the covert CIA agent. Undoubtedly, Rove's departure will not end the Bush White House's policies of putting what's best for the Republican Party ahead of... Democrats.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881120/posts#comment Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:05:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1874426/posts WELLINGTON (AFP) - They say you are what you eat, and growing numbers of vegans are shunning sex with meat-eaters because they see them as "a graveyard for animals", a New Zealand researcher says. These vegans not only refuse to eat meat or animal products but refuse to have sexual contact with meat-eaters because their bodies are made up of dead animals, the researcher was reported saying in The Press newspaper on Tuesday. Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre of Human and Animal Studies at New Zealand's Canterbury University, said she coined the term vegansexuals during her research.... uk.news.yahoo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1874426/posts#comment Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:37:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1844475/posts It's hard to believe that, in 2007, you can put 1,000 adults in one room and nobody is divorced. But that was the scene yesterday in the polished magnificence of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast Washington, where more than 500 married couples from throughout Maryland and the District gathered to renew their wedding vows. And these weren't vows they had originally made five or 10 years ago. We're talking Olympic-level marriage achievement here. The ceremony for Catholic couples, hosted by the Archdiocese of Washington, was for couples who had been married 25 years... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1844475/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jun 2007 13:08:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1836684/posts NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Kristina Schneider tried to persuade a customer at the BP station where she works to buy the last ticket on a roll of the Magnificent Millions lottery game. "I always joke that the last ticket is the winning one, but he said he only had enough money for three tickets," Schneider said. This time, her advice was no joke. The single mother -- with nine maxed-out credit cards and $8,500 in debt for her associate's degree -- bought what turned out to a $1 million winning ticket with a $10 bill she found in the... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1836684/posts#comment Sun, 20 May 2007 13:15:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825539/posts War on Terror: Whatever ex-CIA chief George Tenet's book says he meant by "slam dunk" regarding pre-Iraq War intelligence, there always were lots of good reasons to oust Saddam Hussein — and to finish the job today. In the nearly 550 pages of Tenet's "At the Center of the Storm," there's no shortage of bitter complaints from the intelligence chief on whose watch 9/11 took place. He says the Washington Post's Bob Woodward distorted and took out of context the phrase that has come to define Tenet. While conceding the CIA believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction before... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825539/posts#comment Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:29:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1804284/posts Before the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the false-pretense Iraq war, the American way of life was already a global symbol of gluttony. If anything, the post-9/11 period has resulted in even more hoarding. In 2000, the size of the average American home was 2,266 square feet. Now it is 2,434 square feet, according to Census data, with the highest regional average right here in the Northeast at 2,556 square feet. Our homes are on average double the size of those in other Top 10 richest nations such as Japan or Switzerland according to the New York Times and the... Boston Glib http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1804284/posts#comment Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:32:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1758510/posts NEW YORK - Randy Johnson could be leaving the New York Yankees after just two seasons. The Yankees have started trade talks with several teams, including the Arizona Diamondbacks, although it is too early to tell whether the discussions will lead to a deal. Talks were confirmed yesterday by a baseball official who had knowledge of them and spoke on condition of anonymity because they are in the preliminary stage. The Yankees’ discussions with the Diamondbacks, Johnson’s The Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1758510/posts#comment Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:32:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747861/posts The Washington Post recently published a harshly anti-Bush op-ed by Douglas Brinkley, who does not bother disclosing his John Kerry connections. Shortly after Thanksgiving I had dinner in California with Ronald Reagan's best biographer, Lou Cannon. Like many historians these days, we discussed whether George W. Bush is, conceivably, the worst U.S. president ever. Cannon bristled at the idea. Bush has two more years to leave his mark, he argued. What if there is a news flash that U.S. Special Forces have killed Osama bin Laden or that North Korea has renounced its nuclear program? What if a decade from... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747861/posts#comment Sun, 3 Dec 2006 18:41:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735793/posts [Final two pharagraphs] So in the nature of things conservatives and libertarians can conclude no friendly pact. Conservatives have no intention of compromising with socialists; but even such an alliance, ridiculous though it would be, is more nearly conceivable than the coalition of conservatives and libertarians. The socialists at least declare the existence of some sort of moral order; the libertarians are quite bottomless. It is of high importance, indeed, that American conservatives dissociate themselves altogether from the little sour remnant called libertarians. In a time requiring long views and self-denial, alliance with a faction founded upon doctrinaire selfishness would... David O. McKay Library, Brigham Young University http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735793/posts#comment Thu, 9 Nov 2006 21:18:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1717117/posts The "runaway bride," who took off days before her lavish wedding in 2005, is suing her former fiance for $500,000, claiming he defrauded her out of her share of their assets, including a ladder, a gold sofa and gifts. read more at foxnews.com http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,219125,00.html Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1717117/posts#comment Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:32:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1705778/posts Just About the Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Read smalldeadanimals.com 21 September 2006 In its attempt to sway, manipulate, and form world opinion to fit with editorial boards, the MSM now has a new tool: World Opinion Polls. In case you missed that, I’ll rephrase it. The MSM now conducts WORLD opinion polls so that we can be enlightened by knowing what the world thinks. The concept is so flawed that I won’t insult the intelligence of readers here by even bothering to debunk it, but I will say this. What does it say of news media editorial boards, when... smalldeadanimals blog site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1705778/posts#comment Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:40:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595494/posts Brokeback Mountain author Annie Proulx recalls a bitter night at the Oscars.ON THE sidewalk stood hordes of the righteous, some leaning forward like wind-bent grasses, the better to deliver their imprecations against gays and fags to the open windows of the limos - the windows open by order of the security people - creeping towards the Kodak Theatre for the 78th Academy Awards. Others held up sturdy, professionally crafted signs expressing the same hatred. The red carpet in front of the theatre was larger than the Red Sea. Inside, we climbed grand staircases designed for showing off dresses. The circular... The Guardian via SMH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595494/posts#comment Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:55:09 GMT