http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/trailertrash/ en-us Fri, 4 Apr 2008 18:01:22 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1996794/posts Last week I received the following e-mail, and I felt it would be best to share my response here on the blog. Dear Mr. White, For someone considering converting to Catholicism, what questions would you put to them in order to discern whether or not they have examined their situation sufficiently? Say, a Top 10 list. Thanks. When I posted this question in our chat channel a number of folks commented that it was in fact a great question, and we started to throw out some possible answers. Here is my "Top Ten List" in response to this fine inquiry.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1996794/posts#comment Fri, 4 Apr 2008 18:01:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1989365/posts NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa. -- A former Norwin homecoming queen accused of attacking her sister with a prosthetic leg and threatening to burn down a neighbor's trailer was ordered on Wednesday to go to rehab. Donna Sturkie-Anthony showed up for her preliminary hearing before District Judge Douglas Weimer, but the 41-year-old woman's hearing was continued so she can go to Greenbriar Treatment Center. Police said Sturkie-Anthony's sister came to visit her at Lincoln Mobile Home Park on Route 30 in January, and the two started arguing about her alcohol abuse. Then, police said Sturkie-Anthony pulled off her sister's prosthetic leg and... WTAE TV NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1989365/posts#comment Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:16:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988143/posts (Gov. David Paterson, with his wife, Michelle, at his side, publically addresses his past extramarital affairs - a story first reported by the Daily News.) In an extraordinary public confession less than 24 hours after taking office, Gov. Paterson said Tuesday he has had affairs with "a number of women" in the not-so-distant past - including a current state employee. Standing shoulder to shoulder with his grim-faced wife, Michelle, the governor said his "conscience is clear" - now that he has come clean about his private infidelities. He said he hopes now to focus on the public's business. "I... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988143/posts#comment Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:41:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973970/posts WASHINGTON -- There always has been something delusional about the Clintons' project to make Hillary this country's next commander in chief. Start with the balderdash so frequently exuded through the media that she is, along with her husband, a "rock star." Well, they left the White House like rock stars. They trashed the place. Yet Hillary, a physically unprepossessing lady on the far side of middle age, is not a rock star. Agreed, when she and her bodyguards enter a room, she turns a lot of heads, but so does a roadside automobile accident or the clumsy waitress who just... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973970/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:06:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964596/posts Tomorrow is the time when so many of us will make decisions of great importance in the ballot box. If voting for a Democrat, we will decide between a male candidate and what has been dubbed "Billary" - two heads to match a double set of sex organs. It also means certain kinds of trouble because it both affords the Republicans an almost certain victory and illuminates the confusion and lack of integrity that have always been the problem of "identity politics." There is nothing the Republicans would love more than running against the political hermaphrodite. Hushed word is that... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964596/posts#comment Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:32:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961386/posts Campaign workers for Hillary Clinton left such a mess when they cleared out of their headquarters in Clinton, Iowa — that the building manager says he will never rent office space to a political candidate again. The Quad-City Times reports the campaign rented six rooms from last summer until after the Iowa caucuses early this month. Building manager Duane Jones says when the staff left — he found garbage, spoiled food, holes drilled in the walls for phone lines without permission, and stains on the carpets. He also says a smoke alarm was missing — and noticed that windows were... Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961386/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:08:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930085/posts It's hard to imagine that Scott McClellan's allegations that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were involved in the false exoneration of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame case will be treated as anything but another footnote in the truth-challenged history of the Bush administration. It will be the spring of 2008 before McClellan's book is published -- deep into a presidential race -- and we'll eat the paper this isn't printed on if either Democrats in Congress or Michael Mukasey will be willing to go to the wall then in a serious investigation of what really... Salon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930085/posts#comment Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:03:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886951/posts OAKS BLUFF, Mass. (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to her favorite family vacation spot Saturday to raise money for her presidential campaign at a celebrity-studded event where she took some pointed swipes at President Bush. Clinton—accompanied by her husband and their daughter Chelsea—smiled broadly and swayed to the music as singer Carly Simon and her two children, Ben and Sally Taylor, sang "Devoted to You" for a Martha's Vineyard crowd of more than 2,000. Simon, along with actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, showered the Clintons with praise and predicted the senator from New York will be elected... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886951/posts#comment Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:54:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1861369/posts NEW YORK (Reuters) - When all else fails in Hollywood, blame it on "method acting." Pop star Britney Spears on Thursday explained why she furiously attacked a car with an umbrella -- she was rehearsing for a movie role. ADVERTISEMENT As the former pop princess reinvents her career after a failed marriage, a stint in rehabilitation and panty-less pictures taken in public, Spears posted a note on her Web site, www.britneyspears.com, apologizing to the paparazzi for the umbrella-bashing incident, calling it a "stunt." "I was preparing my character for a roll (sic) in a movie where the husband never plays... REUTERS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1861369/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jul 2007 21:01:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838979/posts ...he was stunned to see two large Confederate flags flying from trucks...emblazoned with the words "The South Shall Rise Again." I'm stunned, too, that people still think it is cool to fly this flag. Our society should bury these flags -- not flaunt them...because the Confederate flag symbolizes racial tyranny to so many... ...This flag doesn't belong on city streets, in videos or in the middle of civil discussion. It belongs in our past -- in museums and in history books -- along with the ideas it represents. The Wichita (KS) Eagle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838979/posts#comment Thu, 24 May 2007 13:03:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807719/posts Senator Clinton's Lawyers Seek to Halt Fraud Suit By Fred Lucas CNSNews.com Staff Writer March 27, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - Attorneys for Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) are trying to keep her out of a lawsuit that may ultimately force her to testify under oath about an alleged violation of campaign finance laws. Washington lawyers David Kendall and Carolyn Utrecht and Los Angeles attorney Jan B. Norman -- all representing the apparent frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination -- filed legal briefs Friday in the California Court of Appeals focusing heavily on the criminal background of plaintiff Peter Paul, the Hollywood... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807719/posts#comment Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:52:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795365/posts This is incredible. Listen to the audio. After listening to this blatant phony and fool, I thought to myself: "And the Democrats and the Media dare to criticize Bush?" I would be monumentally embarrassed to be a Democrat after listening to this. Drudge and IFlim http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795365/posts#comment Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:50:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795910/posts "Clinton Fights to Keep Impeachment Taboo" headlined the Washington Post, with the following subheadline: "After Spat, Campaigns Know to Expect Swift Reprisal for any Hint of the Scandal." And the Post reported: "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new commandment for the 2008 presidential field: Thou shalt not mention anything related to the impeachment of her husband." Can you believe this? The American people are now expected through all members of the media – and all election crowd questioners – to observe censorship. There are to be no questions regarding impeachment, trial and conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795910/posts#comment Tue, 6 Mar 2007 07:35:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748201/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747605/posts Communication Professor Examines Media Bias in President's Speeches Virginia Tech News ^ | 11/30/06 | Jean Elliott Posted on 12/02/2006 5:28:58 PM CST by LS BLACKSBURG, VA., November 30, 2006 -- Jim A. Kuypers, assistant professor of communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, reveals a disturbing world of media bias in his new book Bush's War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2006). Convincingly and without resorting to partisan politics, Kuypers strongly illustrates in eight chapters “how the press failed America in its... Rush Limbaugh http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748201/posts#comment Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:24:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1729848/posts Nevada's race for governor was barely a contest at all until it took a scandalous turn a few weeks ago, when a cocktail waitress accused Rep. Jim Gibbons of trying to sexually assault her in a parking garage after a night of drinking just off the Las Vegas Strip. The lurid allegations in the closing weeks of the campaign have put the race back in play and put the one-time Republican front-runner on the defensive. Policy issues have taken a back seat to dueling news conferences, a burgeoning criminal investigation and a mystery over what exactly is on the parking... AP News via MYWAY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1729848/posts#comment Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:40:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1728596/posts Teen Arrested for Raping His Mother Albertville, Ala. -- Police say a Marshall County teen raped his mother to get revenge on his brother. Police say 19-year-old Gary Helms, Jr., raped his 45-year-old mother this past weekend at Willow Terrace Trailer Park on Doyle Drive in Albertville. It's a twisted crime that police say Helms admits. "From what we understand the rape stemmed from an argument between him and his brother. And apparently they were arguing over a girlfriend. And the rape was some sort of retaliation towards his brother," said Sgt. Jamie Smith of the Albertville Police Department. It... WFSA 12 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1728596/posts#comment Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:27:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728092/posts Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728092/posts#comment Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:49:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726538/posts FLASH!!! Dixie Chicks Natalie Manes just now blamed the Free Republic for their downfall on "Hardball." She claims the FR had an organized effort to bring them down. Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726538/posts#comment Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:54:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1722826/posts Hillary enemies find her cross just unbearable Hillary Clinton has appeared a handful of times this summer and fall with a cross around her neck, and it's an image that touches a nerve with the people who hate her. But Clinton is among the most religious Protestants seeking the presidency in 2008. If she gets the Democratic nod, she could well be matched against a less openly devout Republican. "She's actually the real deal, although a lot of people don't think of her as religious," said John Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1722826/posts#comment Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:31:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712033/posts   Did you see Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) suggest last week what her husband would have done if he had received the August 6, 2001, Presidential Daily Brief concerning bin Laden? Touching, wasn’t it? If only there was an ounce of truth to it.To refresh everyone’s memory, after former president Bill Clinton’s meltdown during an interview with Chris Wallace on September 24, the junior senator from New York felt compelled to come to his rescue: “I’m certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled `Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside United... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712033/posts#comment Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:08:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708920/posts Sen. Hillary Clinton has spoken up in support of her husband Bill’s defense of his anti-terror efforts, saying she’s tired of Democrats being pushed around on national security issues. "I just think that my husband did a great job in demonstrating that Democrats are not going to take this,” she said on Monday in remarks reported by Newsday. In a heated discussion with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday,” Bill Clinton said that as president, he did more than many of his conservative critics to pursue al-Qaida, and alleged that President Bush didn’t try to stop terrorism in the eight... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708920/posts#comment Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:50:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706670/posts <p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p> The Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706670/posts#comment Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:09:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683752/posts Former US president Bill Clinton listens to Bill Gates during a Symposium on "Priorities in Ending the Epidemic" at the XVI International Aids Conference in Toronto, Canada.(AFP/Jorge Uzon) Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683752/posts#comment Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:16:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680812/posts ALBUQUERQUE -- Right in the middle of today’s deadly carjacker pursuit, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department arrested two members of Albuquerque’s famous Unser racing family. Both Al Unser Sr. and Bobby Unser Sr. were booked into the Metro Detention Center this afternoon charged with failure to obey a police officer and resisting arrest. Both walked out of the jail about 3:30 p.m. The brothers, who have a combined seven checkered flags at the Indianapolis 500 and are huge names in the racing world, apparently thought their celebrity status meant they were above the law. The police pursuit of a stolen... KRQE News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680812/posts#comment Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1661810/posts HODE, Ky. — Two eastern Kentucky men are charged with animal cruelty in the deaths of each others' cats. David A. May, 20, and Arlon K. White, 27 — who each kept a cat at a trailer court in Hode, near the Kentucky-West Virginia border — allegedly killed the animals last week, Martin County Deputy Sheriff Arthur Bowen said Wednesday. May allegedly knocked White's cat off his car and shot the animal with a rifle, Bowen said. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1661810/posts#comment Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:09:00 GMT