http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ss/ en-us Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:58:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057605/posts ENERGY POLICY: "If every American... would just inflate their tires... we wouldn't need any more drilling... and I wouldn't have to answer these dumb@ss questions..." SOCIAL SECURITY POLICY: "If every American... would just save $100 per week... we wouldn't need any more Social Security... and I wouldn't have to answer these dumb@ss questions..." LABOR POLICY: "If every American... would just join a union... and pay the d@mn dues... so I could plan on being re-elected in four years... I wouldn't have to answer these dumb@ss questions..." MEDICAL CARE FOR EVERY AMEREICAN POLICY: "If every American... would just eat healthy... and... vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057605/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:58:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045232/posts For decades, a fairly consistent share of workers -- about 60 percent of women and about 52 percent of men -- have claimed a Social Security check at 62, the earliest age at which most people qualify for benefits. However, collecting Social Security before "full retirement age," which is climbing gradually to age 67, results in a permanent reduction in a person's monthly payout, says the Wall Street Journal. In a study published in June by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, researchers found: Some 48 percent of women and 43 percent of men who turned 62 in... ncpa.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045232/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:19:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1939322/posts Quiz yourself on the Israeli Arab ["Palestinian"] conflict       1) When was the Arab immigration to [the historic Jewish land of] Israel -"Palestine" boosted?   A When they wanted to see Jewish holy sites. B When [anti French and anti British] Arab nationalism spread across the middle east. C When the Zionists Jews came and cultivated the deserted land.     2) What's [Arab "Palestinian" highest "national" icon] Yasser Arafat's country of origin?   A Israel ["Palestine"]. B Jordan. C Egypt.     3) Why were there --initially-- more Arab immigrants ["residents"] than Jewish immigrants (Arab majority)?   A Because... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1939322/posts#comment Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:02:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1932695/posts   A Byrd's eye look at the historic 'Israeli - Arab conflict' towards Annapolis 2007    Around 2,000 years ago, the Romans that have conquered Israel, the Jewish people, the Jewish land, (after killing Jesus) destroy Jews' second temple, massacre hundreds of thousands after a rebellion against Rome's oppression and prohibition on practicing Judaism and mass torture [an armed rebellion which was disapproved by the rabbis & any religious leaders], and expell majority of Jews out of the land [as was expected throught the Jewish prophets, because God expects from his people - the Jews much more than from other... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1932695/posts#comment Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:48:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1932570/posts The toughest questions. The best calculators. The coolest strategies. And a lot more. Starting in January, the first of an estimated 78 million baby boomers turn 62 years old and become eligible for Social Security. Time to reach for the aspirin. Now in its eighth decade, Social Security is arguably more important -- and certainly more complicated -- than ever before. Boomers, for the most part, are on their own when it comes to planning for later life; pensions and related safety nets are disappearing from the workplace. Thus, Social Security checks -- the closest thing to a sure bet... yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1932570/posts#comment Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:52:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1928728/posts ISRAEL - PEACE - SURVIVAL, NOT GENOCIDE! In the beginning...Israel has always faced genocide, from the moment the Islamo Arab fascist leader, the infamous [later on exposed as Hitler's buddy] Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini has called, incited, led to "kill the Jews" in the 1920s. The Mufti, that prior to inciting to "kill the Yahud [Jews]" & leading massacres such as Hebron 1929 and the Farhud in 1941, has participated in the massacres and genocide of Christians, the Armenian Genocide that is [http://Armenian-Genocide.org], where 1.5 Million Christians were brutally murdered. An ally of the Nazi "Fuhrer": Adolph Hitler,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1928728/posts#comment Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:46:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903210/posts CORONADO, Calif. -- The U.S. Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify the appearance of a barracks complex in Coronado that resembles a swastika from the air. Navy officials said the spending for changes to the four L-shaped buildings were approved after satellite images from Google Earth revealed the swastika-like shape. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903210/posts#comment Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:01:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900593/posts Newly released photos of SS officers sitting in canvas chairs, participating in sing-alongs and enjoying their free time at a recreation home near Auschwitz have shocked many in Germany this week. Spiegel Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900593/posts#comment Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:46:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1876534/posts HISTORY - Time line [some] Important dates in radical ISLAM VS WORLD 1263 - 1328 The 'Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism' Who is the True Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism? His name is Ibn Taymiyyah, or Taq ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah, and he lived from 1263 to 1328. His name by birth was Ahmad ibn Abdul-Halim ibn Abdas-Salaam. This individual could be considered as the real godfather of fundamentalism. Maududi borrowed extensively from Taymiyyah's writings. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/index.php? id=1194248__________________1347 [The Bahmani sultans & genocide on Indians]The Muslim conquests, down to the 16th century, were for the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1876534/posts#comment Sun, 5 Aug 2007 03:32:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871165/posts A forgotten monument to Hitler's ideology has emerged from a 70-year time warp -- a castle built in the 1930s to train a new Nazi elite. Vacated by the Belgian army last year, it sheds light on the systematic brainwashing that churned out a generation of fanatics. Now it's being spruced up to teach visitors about the perils of indoctrination. Deep in the Eifel region of western Germany, a stone-clad reminder of Hitler's racist ideology towers above the surrounding wooded hills -- the remains of a training college for aspiring Nazi leaders that was built in the style of a... DER SPIEGEL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871165/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:11:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1839272/posts Heard Rush talking about this today. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1839272/posts#comment Thu, 24 May 2007 20:56:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827640/posts The Prince of Wales was a "most likeable person", President Gaddafi a "mad clown" and Michael Jackson was "surprisingly shy". The private diaries of Ronald Reagan, which are about to be published for the first time, reveal a US president who was worried about imminent Armageddon but who also fretted about how he would handle chopsticks in front of the Chinese. The man who was credited with ending the Cold War reveals that he was "lonesome" when his wife, Nancy, was away and refused to talk to their son, Ron Junior, after he hung up on him. His carefully handwritten... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827640/posts#comment Thu, 3 May 2007 08:21:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1754095/posts Germans demand compensation from Poland over war losses A German group has filed claims against Poland with a European court over property lost in the aftermath of World War II, a member said today. The Prussian Claims Society, which represents some Germans who were expelled from Poland after the war ended, filed the complaint with the European Court of Human Rights, the society’s deputy leader Gerwald Stanko said. “Twenty-two individual complaints have gone to the European Court of Human Rights,” Stanko said. He said the aim was to secure either compensation or the return of property. The Prussian Claims Society... Irish Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1754095/posts#comment Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:52:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1750153/posts Islam Under the Swastika Arab Muslim "Palestinians" historic 'pitting Muslim against Jew' (Since the Islamic Hitler = Mufti's era) (Amin A-Husseini organizes the first riots in Palestine using a propaganda of disinformation, pitting Muslim against Jew.) Link: http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/022.shtml Islam Under the Swastika The Grand Mufti and the Nazi Protectorate of Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1941-1945 by Carl Savich The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem: Haj Amin el Husseini Haj Amin el Husseini arrived in Europe in 1941 following the unsuccessful pro-Nazi coup which he organized in Iraq. He met German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and was officially received by Adolf Hitler on November... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1750153/posts#comment Fri, 8 Dec 2006 01:19:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1745124/posts Not according to Binnie Thompson (D-Miss). He seems quite steamed that an employer would actually care whether its employees had matching Social Security Numbers. It seems Congressman Thompson takes offence to the concept of verifying a perspective employee's Social Security Number. In fact, he had the following to say when Cintas, a uniform manufacturing company, contemplated attempting to terminate employees with mismatched or unverifiable Social Security Numbers, he said the magic words. "I am deeply troubled by Cintas' recent policy change regarding the Social Security Administration's 'no match' letters," Mr. Thompson said in the Nov. 2 letter. "It is my... RedState.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1745124/posts#comment Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:31:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742345/posts First Daughter Barbara Bush had her purse and cell phone stolen as she had dinner in a restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, even though she was being guarded by a detail of Secret Service agents, according to law enforcement reports made available to ABC News. It was not the only mishap on the two-week trip to Argentina by Barbara (right) and her twin sister Jenna (left). A Secret Service agent on the advance detail got into an "altercation" with someone after a night out and was badly beaten, according to the law enforcement reports. The Secret Service said today the... abc news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742345/posts#comment Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:56:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1730758/posts To be a "good" Muslim! Part I http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1726241/posts Part II http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1727912/posts Part III http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1728361/posts Dehumaize victims of Islamic terror, especially Israeli men, women & children as "tanks". Never apologize for the continuing exposed (Like Muhammad Aldura, Reuters "images", Jenin "numbers" & added bodies) long tradition of lying, faking, inventing hoaxes, faking images, etc. but rather be already busy with preparing the next one. Islamic violence and bloodshed is always ahead of West's "reprisal", in other words, Bin Laden, Muhammad Atta, etc. have massacred Americans on 9/11/2001 was because the US will eventually go into Afghanistan afterwards, Islamists almost succeeded with... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1730758/posts#comment Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:46:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706338/posts The former SS guard kept her secret buried, even from her Jewish husband. Now exposed, the Bay Area widow, 83, is back in Germany. WASHINGTON — She lived alone in a tiny, top-floor apartment in one of the tougher sections of San Francisco. At 83, she was short and a bit stout. Diabetes took the sight in one of her eyes; arthritis left her leaning heavily on a cane. For long trips, she took a taxi. Her husband had died. He was the love of her long life, a short, dapper man who had worked as a bartender and waiter... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706338/posts#comment Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:11:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702175/posts These days, he is mostly known as a German scholar who hid his youthful membership in the SS while publicly affirming support of Germany’s left-wing Social Democratic party. But Jonathan Brent, editorial director of the Yale University Press, shows us in the September 8th installment of the Chronicle of Higher Education that Grass has long been ambivalent, at best about the nature of totalitarian governments. Moreover, Brent has found that this ambivalence is alarmingly typical of students and can have disastrous global implications in the work of graduates. In 1987, Brent and Irving Howe got a chance to see Grass... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702175/posts#comment Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:09:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701256/posts IN MEMORY OF JOACHIM FEST The Proud Loner By Matthias Matussek Joachim Fest has died. The author of a best-selling biography of Adolf Hitler and former editor of the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has left an impressive life's work - one of the most important to be produced in Germany since 1945. Fest's memoirs "Not Me" are a masterpiece. They tell the story of a family that refused to bow to the pressures of history and society. Now he has lost his battle against illness after all. Joachim Fest had to muster the last of his strength to complete... SPIEGEL Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701256/posts#comment Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:09:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1697413/posts Senate Democratic leadership threatens Disney with legal and legislative sanctionsby John in DC - 9/07/2006 06:02:00 PM This letter was sent today by the entire Democratic leadership of the US Senate. This letter is such a major shot across the bow of Disney, it's not even funny. It is FILLED with veiled threats, both legal and legislative, against Disney. US Senators don't make threats like this, especially the entire Democratic leadership en masse, unless they mean it. Disney is in serious trouble. Read it, then read my analysis of it below:September 7, 2006 Mr. Robert A. Iger President and... americablog.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1697413/posts#comment Thu, 7 Sep 2006 23:12:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692606/posts This news report from Bayerischer Rundfunk explains in detail the cooperation between the Nazis and the Muslim Arab leaders during WW2. It goes on to explain how high ranking heads of the SS fled to the Arab world and carried on their activities under the protection of leaders such as President Nasser and how modern Islam has adopted a Nazi style ideology of hate and conspiracy against the Jews. Thanks to the Editrix (www.editrixoffice.com) for providing the translation and revealing this ray of light in the darkness of vitriolic reporting about Israel in the German media. You Tube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692606/posts#comment Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:41:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685998/posts Nobel laureate's memoirs sell out after SS confession By Lee Glendinning and agencies The publishers have brought forward the release date and German bookshops are struggling to keep up supplies. Such is the demand for Gunter Grass's autobiography, which has stunned Germany with revelations that the Nobel-prize winning novelist once served in Hitler's Waffen SS as a teenager. Grass, 78 - regarded by many as Germany's moral arbiter - recounted the secret shame that has weighed upon him for decades following his involvement in the elite military force, in a pre-publication interview with a German newspaper last weekend. His admissions... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685998/posts#comment Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:38:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685969/posts Poland's Walesa says Grass owes Poles explanation By Natalia Reiter REUTERS 8:58 a.m. August 18, 2006 WARSAW – Polish Solidarity hero Lech Walesa urged German author Guenter Grass on Friday to prove that a confession about his membership in Hitler's SS was not just a marketing ploy to promote his new novel. The former Polish president also said he would give up his honorary citizenship of Poland's city of Gdansk, if Grass, also a holder of the same title, failed to explain why he decided to confess when his autobiography 'Peeling Onions' came out. 'If Grass will not address his... The San Diego Union-Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685969/posts#comment Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:46:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684191/posts Jewish leader criticizes Grass 2 hours, 11 minutes ago BERLIN - The head of Germany's main Jewish organization has criticized writer Guenter Grass for waiting decades to reveal that he had served during World War II in the Waffen-SS, the Nazis' dreaded military force. Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews, said Tuesday that the admission negated Grass' longtime criticisms of German politics and society for not adequately dealing with the Nazi past. "His long years of silence over his own SS past reduce his earlier statements to absurdities," Knobloch was quoted as saying by the Netzeitung online... AP via Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684191/posts#comment Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:20:12 GMT