http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/stupidity/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:21:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418927/posts KABUL--The suicide bomber who killed eight Americans, including seven CIA officers, this week might have been able to get through multiple layers of security at the U.S. compound aided by an Afghan informant with the agency, a Western official said Friday. If this is true, it suggests insurgents had turned the tables on the CIA and been able to place their own agents close to the facility the CIA used to cultivate informants.On Wednesday, CIA officials had invited the attacker onto the base with the hopes of recruiting him as an informant. They used an Afghan intermediary to arrange the... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418927/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:21:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417789/posts The US blocked Dutch attempts to install full-body scanners for passengers travelling to the US before the failed suicide bombing of a transatlantic flight on Christmas Day, the Dutch interior minister said today. Authorities at Schipol airport in Amsterdam had wanted to introduce the devices to monitor US-bound flights, but the scanners were not installed because US authorities wanted them to be used on flights to all destinations, said Guusje Ter Horst The disclosure could put further pressure on Barack Obama, who has come under criticism in the US after the security lapse that allowed a young Nigerian Islamist to... Guardian UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417789/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:36:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416840/posts U.S. authorities didn't pursue leads that might have brought alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab under further scrutiny, according to congressional investigators and U.S. officials. The State Department forwarded Mr. Abdulmutallab's name to a basic U.S. terrorist watch list earlier this month, but didn't revoke his visa after Mr. Abdulmutallab's father alerted U.S. officials to his son's potential radicalization. His purchase of a $2,800 plane ticket with cash also didn't set off alarm bells. The case highlights a failure of the terrorist watch-list system to adapt to the evolving threat from al Qaeda, said one senior U.S. counterterrorism official.... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416840/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:19:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416404/posts Federal authorities met Monday to reassess the nation's system of terror watchlists to determine how to avoid the type of lapse that allowed a man with explosives to board a flight to the U.S. even though he was flagged as a possible terrorist. A senior U.S. intelligence official said authorities were reviewing the procedures that govern the lists, which could include how someone is placed on or moved between the various databases. The Obama administration has ordered investigations into how travelers are placed on watch lists and how passengers are screened, as critics and administration officials questioned how the 23-year-old... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416404/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:30:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412608/posts Let's just say I'm not stupid enough to stop providing my family with health insurance coverage BUT here's how my scenario would work out if I did ... and you can bet your sweet a$$ that others have figured this out ... particularly young single middle-class men and women with expendable incomes ... and your stupid federal government? Not so much. Feed Your ADHD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412608/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:16:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411053/posts Helicopter Ben Bernanke passed his reconfirmation vote in the Senate Banking Committee this week. But he passed by 16 to 7. Most of the Republicans voted against Bernanke, as did one Democrat, Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon. The reconfirmation now goes to the floor of the Senate, where it’s going to be held up for a while. (Sen. Jim DeMint and others are insisting that a vote on the Government Accounting Office’s audit of the Fed occur first.) But when the final vote happens, I think Bernanke could be in trouble. Mirroring the Banking Committee vote, most of the 40... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411053/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:01:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409724/posts CHICAGOMINUTEMAN PROJECT It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest. - Barbara Jordan   PROTEST NO TERRORISTS IN ILLINOIS WHEN: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 1:00PM.WHERE: Sterling High School - 1608 4th Avenue - Sterling, Illinois WHY: [Alleged] President Obama has decided to move the Alien Terrorists in Gauntanamo Bay to our own backyard. I called Governor Patrick Quinn's office in Springfield to inquire as to the number of public hearings scheduled for this issue. The response was, "none." Caution: The elite propaganda outlets will try to convince us that this is nothing more than... AIPNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409724/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:53:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407246/posts This week, while global attention is focused on the climate change summit in Copenhagen, a small Connecticut bird is a reminder that the potential harm of a changing world environment is never far away. About half of the world's population of the elusive saltmarsh sparrows nests every spring on Connecticut's shoreline. But rising water levels due to global warming and other habitat damage are endangering the species, making the bird a critical indicator of the health of Connecticut's coastal flats. For the past seven years, University of Connecticut ornithologist Chris Elphick has been working with a team of biologists studying... Courant.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407246/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:06:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405818/posts The speaker at Friday prayer services at Howard University's dental school stressed to worshipers that Islam is a religion of moderation. Ramy Zamzam, a student at the dental school, is among five men detained in Pakistan after they allegedly sought to join up with terrorist groups. In a brief sermon, Sultan Chaudhry, who serves as president of the dentistry school's student council, said: "Muslims have to follow the middle path with no extremes on either side." Chaudhry also said Islam promotes "human dignity and honor" and has a set of universal values that are "positive and life-affirming.".. At a Virginia... WHSV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405818/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:32:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405150/posts Link only ESPN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405150/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:24:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2403155/posts 2009 will probably go down as the Year of Stupid. Everywhere you look you see birthers, deathers, deniers, tea fetishists, and semi-literate amateur pundits screaming and frothing over their unsupported, repeatedly debunked line of argument. They are wrong. Dead wrong. Distractingly, even dangerously wrong. And since they will not, or more likely cannot, understand this fact they go on screaming and frothing in a fruitless quest for validation. They'll disrupt town hall meetings, Congressional addresses, and children's birthday parties to remind you, just in case you allowed yourself to forget for even a moment, of just how painfully stupid they... Ridiculopathy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2403155/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 21:28:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400208/posts WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's options for spurring job growth may be limited by out-of-control budget deficits, but he is warming to moves by his congressional allies for a jobs-boosting bill. Taking his defense of the economy on the road, the president scheduled appearances Friday in Pennsylvania to showcase innovative businesses following Thursday's White House jobs forum. That event combined cheerleading and brainstorming as Obama exhorted more than 100 CEOs, academics, small business and union leaders and local officials to focus on new ways to get businesses hiring again. At the forum, the president spoke favorably of an expanded program... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400208/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:34:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2399290/posts Bastard mooslems infected Islam in Action, a blog by Christopher Logan, with malware, forcing Blogger to shut it down. The muzzies also took over Christopher’s other site, christopherlogan.org, and it now re-directs to some fetid B.S. site about “Islam is peace.” Being charitable, as those who follow the religion of blowing people to pieces typically are, the bastards also killed his computer with their malware. Feed Your ADHD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2399290/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:37:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394993/posts What Al Gore is thankful for this Thanksgiving. (Includes an incredible image of the Whoremeister selling carbon nonesense.) Feed Your ADHD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394993/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:21:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394743/posts “I hope they Mirandized this Ahmed Hashim Abed guy before they punched him.”—Rush Limbaugh On March 31, 2004, a small convoy guarded by four American civilian contractors was ambushed at Fallujah, Iraq, and the guards were killed. The bodies of the four Blackwater security guards were burnt, hacked, and two of the mutilated bodies were hung for display on a bridge over the Euphrates river. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that in ” a macabre and murderous town fete, locals cheered as one corpse was attached to a car tow rope and pulled triumphantly up and down the main road….”... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394743/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:07:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394132/posts The Indian science journal Jonwar Chodu has just released the details on some fascinating research being conducted to replace the gasoline-powered automobile. Scientists working on the volcanic island of Krakatoa have been experimenting with a new type of car that is expected to completely replace the internal combustion engine by as early as 2013. They call it the “geo-thermal hydro-electric car.” How does it work? I’m glad you asked… Feed Your ADHD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394132/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:31:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382997/posts Iowahawk has a post over his way rounding up the headlines the MSM wished they could have run with about the moonbat jihadi murderer of 13 and shooter of 29 others last week at Ft. Hood. Naturally, in keeping with MSM tradition, reality imitated art this morning when the AP came out with this beauty: "Obama pressed into role of healer, inevitably" as the pResident was heading off to Ft. Hood today for the memorial honoring those killed and wounded. (It's my position that the best thing Zero could do for Ft. Hood, really, is to stay home, but the... Feed Your ADHD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382997/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:43:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379797/posts "4th Inf. Div. Reaches Out to Local Islamic Community Members During Mosque Visit" (May 2009) Sgt. Philip Klein 4th Inf. Div. PAO KILLEEN, Texas – Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, the commanding general of the 4th InfantryDivision, helped open the lines of communication when he visited a mosque at the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen community center, which is located in Killeen, May 7. The visit marks the Ironhorse Division’s inaugural effort to reach out to the sizeable Muslim community that resides in the greater central Texas region – Killeen, Temple and Austin– to foster dialogue, interaction and understanding between the... Fort Hood Public Affairs Office, May 2009 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379797/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:19:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378039/posts But enough with the blind contributions to the Republican Party, and with the blind voting for establishment-backed candidates. That the establishment attempts to save face every time it loses, at it is doing now by supporting Hoffman two days before the election, should not blind anyone from the fact that only hours ago, it was throwing money at a genuine leftist while trashing Hoffman, and that in the coming months, it will be supporting a decidedly non-conservative Charlie Crist over a perfectly conservative and perfectly electable Marco Rubio in the Florida Republican Senate primary. Thus, until the Republican establishment truly... The North Star National http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378039/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:22:10 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/2374173/posts A Sacramento Superior Court jury today awarded the survivors of Jennifer Lea Strange $16,577,118 as a result of her death nearly three years ago in a water-drinking contest conducted by a local radio station. In making the award, the seven-man, five-woman panel voted unanimously to find that Entercom Sacramento LLC, the local subsidiary of Entercom Communications Corp. of Philadelphia was negligent in putting on the contest that ultimately resulted in Strange's death.......Strange, 28, died Jan. 12, 2007, after participating in what KDND "The End" 107.9 promoted as its "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest that promised the popular Nintendo... sacbee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374173/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:56:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2368320/posts Yeah, you heard me, we need one more law… The “Stupid Law”... Example: Shepard Fairey: What do you say about blatant and ongoing plagiarism? " Oops, I pulled a Ward Churchill!" Grand Rants http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2368320/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:22:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352939/posts Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal urged his party Tuesday to shift to offering health care solutions instead of just rejecting what [Alleged] President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are proposing. “I think now is the perfect time to pivot and to say, not only here’s what we’re against, and not only here’s how we’re going to contrast ourselves, but here’s what we’re for,” Jindal said in an interview with POLITICO. Jindal acknowledged that the Republican Party for years had been too slow to stake out positions on the health care debate “to our peril and the nation’s... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352939/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:03:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2362436/posts CANTON, N.C. (October 13, 2009)—The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence. Among the authors whose books Grizzard plans to burn are well known ministers Rick Warren and Billy Graham because he says they have occasionally used Bibles other than the King James Version, which is the sole biblical source he considers infallible. According to the church’s Web site, members will also burn “Satan's music such as country, rap, rock, pop,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2362436/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:34:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2341241/posts With all this talk of racist marches on Washington and racist comments made during presidential speeches and racist outcry over the pResident’s policies, we really should look at the facts. We all know that the Democratic Party has a long history of racism its members want you to forget. Jimmy Carter’s rant to CNN yesterday is one way they try to pretend that we’re the racists. Here are a couple of joke quotes for fun -- followed by a slew of real quotes made by real racist Democrats. Feed Your ADHD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2341241/posts#comment Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:56:34 GMT