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I'm posting this because I want you all to see what kind of RINO garbage we have on our side. Sarah busted her ass for this guy, got him elected, now he is distancing himself from her ========================================================= News 12 at six o'clock, August 26, 2009 AUGUSTA,Ga---Dozens gathered at the Augusta Museum of History for a chamber of commerce forum on health care reform with Senator Saxby Chambliss. Chambliss attempted to set the record straight on what he calls misinformation. "Say goodbye," said Susan Swanson who is fed up with Washington lawmakers. "Kick out the bums. Kick them all out."...

Howard Dean: Rep. Gingrey ‘an embarrassment’By Bob Cusack Posted: 06/10/09 07:14 PM [ET] There were some serious fireworks on C-SPAN Wednesday as former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean went after two GOP lawmakers-cum-physicians. It all started earlier this week when physician-turned-Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) said he had recently read that Dean’s wife, Dr. “Elizabeth” Steinberg, was no longer taking Medicaid patients because the government reimbursement rates are too low. Dean fired back on Wednesday, saying, “Dr. Gingrey is just plain wrong. He’s an embarrassment. First of all, my wife is not named Elizabeth, as her name is Judith. Second...

The accession of United States President Barack Obama has paved the way to a peaceful Iran solution, according to former United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix. Blix believes the deadlock between the West and Iran over nuclear capabilities was made worse by the "contempt" shown by the former US administration. He also said that the Iraq war was lost rather than won. Blix rose to prominence in 2000 when he was appointed by the UN to search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) poured cold water on the pretext...

One of first the first decisions of US defence that the President-elect will face in office will be whether or not to continue funding for the futuristic Airborne Laser weapons programme. The system aims to send an invisible, ultra-powerful laser beam from aircraft hundreds of miles from their targets, and could one day alter the nature of aerial warfare. Primarily designed to strike enemy missile silos, the US Missile Defence Agency has called the ABL the answer to "rogue states" or terror groups equipped with intercontinental ballistic missiles. The first, very limited, test firing was staged in late November. The...

MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- A man who kidnapped and molested a Marion County boy choked to death in prison. Frederick Fretz died at a federal prison in Atwater, California after choking on a hot dog. In 2005, Fretz kidnapped 11-year-old Adam Kirkirt from Dunellon Elementary School. At the time, he told Kirkirt he was going to take him to his father, who had been arrested in Kentucky. Fretz and the child were later found in Georgia.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has apologized to U.S. attorneys under him and appointed an interim chief of staff as pressure builds for him to resign. Gonzales apologized to all 93 U.S. attorneys in a conference call Friday as morale in U.S. attorneys' offices across the country deteriorated, McClatchy Newspapers reported. Gonzales has been at the center of a controversy over the way in which eight U.S. attorneys were fired in recent months

From: Korean Friendship Association/Corey Kobernik Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2006 1:54 PM Subject: Birth Anniversary of Leader KIM JONG IL Dear Friends, The 64th anniversary of the birth of Leader Kim Jong Il takes place on the 16th of February. This is a very joyous holiday in which the Korean people celebrate in a myriad of ways. People all around the world will be involved in marking the occasion as well through various activities including sending their own personal congratulatory greetings. We highly encourage you to avail yourself of this opportunity to honor Leader Kim Jong Il on his birth...

Fisking Osama From todays message from Osama. I Hereby Commit "A Fisking". The Transcript taken from the BBC Translation page. My comments are in Bold... My message to you is about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the way to end it. Well now, that’s interesting. Saying “way to end it” is significantly different that pounding on your chest and talking about victory. I had not intended to speak to you about this issue, because, for us, this issue is already decided on: diamonds cut diamonds. Diamonds cut diamonds? What the hell does that mean? Either A) We (Bush...

Last week, two state legislators finally introduced the controversial Personal Protection Act, a proposal that would allow citizens to bear a gun, knife or — as ridiculous as it sounds — a billy club in public. The bill’s drafters include every gun-lover’s hero, Sen. Dave Zien, R-Eau Claire, a man with more rifles and shotguns on his office walls than the Madison police, and Rep. Scott Gunderson, R-Waterford, the Assembly’s alleged hunting expert. Undercutting progressive gun-control initiatives, state politicians around the country have bowed to the NRA-rabid right and their backward “more guns, less crime” rhetoric in their absurd belief...

Mayor Bloomberg apologized yesterday to a group of British tourists who were handcuffed and forced to kneel on a Broadway sidewalk after cops swarmed a sightseeing bus - even as another bomb scare rattled downtown Brooklyn. The mayor urged New Yorkers to call authorities if they see something suspicious, but added they should use "common sense" and avoid profiling people like the group of South Asian-looking visitors, who were Sikhs from Britain. "It turned out that these ... people did not present any threat whatsoever," Bloomberg said. "It's a shame, and I certainly apologize on behalf of the City of...

As there was no Free Republic in 1980, I was wondering about Carter's boycott of the 80 Summer Games in Moscow. Agree or disagree? Set aside for a moment that it was Carter. On the plus side, it certainly hurt them economically, and I think his gist was the human rights angle, which certainly has merit. However, I can see it from the point of view that it is just athletics, and we should have let the team go, and try to beat some Rooskie butt. I was only 14 at the time, and certainly not up on international affairs,...

Cops shoot family dog Family upset after incident in backyard By Melissa Pinion-Whitt Staff Writer Thursday, May 26, 2005 - ONTARIO - A police officer investigating a fraud case shot and killed a dog in a residential backyard Wednesday. The 6-year-old boxer named Rocky charged at the officer when he entered the backyard in the 900 block of West G Street around noon. Police were at the home to interview a man suspected of credit card fraud and walked into the backyard because they saw him and suspected he might try to flee. "The officer felt the dog was going...

The “suspicious package” that caused Interstate 75 and Daniels Parkway to be shut for more than an hour Monday was not an explosive pipe bomb — but rather wrapped-up plastic foot-long penis. “Someone took construction-grade plastic, molded it into a penis and wrapped it with duct tape,” said Lee County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Charles Ferrante. “They wrote ‘Happy Father’s Day’ on the duct tape.” The device was first described by the sheriff’s office as a prosthetic penis. Later, it cops described it as a paper sculpture made to look like a penis. "(The rumor that it was actually a prosthetic...

Jack McConnell has promised to "go further" than the Home Office in outlawing air guns in Scotland. Speaking at his weekly Holyrood question time on Thursday, the first minister said the devolved executive would act "in a measured way" in response to the shooting of a two year-old boy in Glasgow last week. But he pledged to introduce tighter controls on the sale of firearms north of the border if the Westminster government does not do enough to satisfy voters concerns in the wake of Andrew Morton's death. Labour MSP Frank McAveety asked the first minister "what action will be...

The inane and bitter Richard Cohen spewed forth a few days ago and -- shockingly -- he wrote of the Democratic movement rustling through the Mideast: '...something momentous is stirring: democracy, freedom, independence. Something. Or, as an Arab acquaintance just e-mailed me from the region, "I can smell the winds of change in the air wherever I go." ...' A gracious and glowing concession to the Reaganesque moves of the administration? Of course not. '...Given what's happening, it's understandable that many eyes have shifted to Washington with a new sense of appreciation. Could it be that the neocons were right...

At first glance, the term "gun nut" would appear to be nothing more than an ad hominem against the more enthusiastic weapon owners of this country. However, as one reads the literature espoused by gun nut organizations, the reasoning behind this term becomes startlingly clear. Gun nuts are called as such because they are incontrovertibly insane. The gun lobby has adopted the same attitude toward politics as Rush Limbaugh: "Don't confuse me with facts, I've got my mind made up!" Gun nuts are so obsessed with opposing gun control laws that no amount of factual evidence against their position will...

Weiner heckled by his own mom BY MAGGIE HABERMANDAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU Anthony Weiner got a public reminder yesterday that "Mother knows best." As the Democratic mayoral hopeful blasted Mayor Bloomberg's educational policies yesterday, he was quietly corrected by his own mom. After Weiner's first major education speech, the congressman told a West Side Chamber of Commerce breakfast that music, arts and language programs have been "decimated" under Bloomberg. "You basically have one choice in school now in terms of a second language and that's Spanish," said Weiner (D-Queens, Brooklyn), a public school alum. But his mom, Fran, a...

Subject: articles Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 22:53:23 +0000 From: bob.wallace@att.net To: Webmaster@freerepublic.com Your site is permanently banned from posting any of my articles from LewRockwell, Strike the Root, Libertarian Enterprise, Price of Liberty, and Endervidualism. Bob Wallace

A thread that I started got pulled without explanation by a Jim Robinson. I'm new here and don't know how to ask the appropriate person (Jim Robinson) why. How do I do that please?

Having family living within minutes of Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains, Ga., I have long respected the former President as a man of honor and integrity. Regrettably, his recent partisan broadside...

I wrote a brief amazon.com review of Garrison Keillor's "Homegrown Democrat," one of the most vile, bigoted tracts published by a major publisher this year. Apparently the lefties have been voting against my review in droves! Please stop by and vote for it. Muchos Gracias!

Garrison Keillor doesn't beat about the Bush when he explains why he wrote "Homegrown Democrat.'' "I want to strengthen and encourage my fellow Democrats because I think they have been so extensively beaten up on, especially on radio, with Rush Limbaugh and 10,000 imitators,'' Keillor said in an interview before he left town for season-ending performances of his "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show. "There are people in this country who cannot comprehend why anyone would vote for a candidate other than George W. Bush. My book is addressed to that. This is an intuitive book, not a closely reasoned...

Hofstra University's commencement speaker, E.L. Doctorow, didn't break new ground when he used his time at the pulpit to launch a scathing attack on President George W. Bush over the weekend. In fact, many commencement speakers use this kind of forum to explore political issues that seek to poke, prod and reveal changes in society. But where Doctorow crossed the line was using a strident, personal and partisan attack in an environment where families gather to celebrate personal accomplishment and academic excellence. If they wanted to hear the author excoriate the president, they would have probably preferred a venue such...

DeWine Wants Answers On Gasoline Prices Ohio Senator Mike DeWine asked the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday what it's doing about high gasoline prices. The Ohio Republican and Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl have written the agency requesting a confidential briefing on what the commission's monitoring of gas prices has found. The agency confirmed it has received the letter but couldn't say when a briefing may be scheduled. DeWine is chairman of the Senate Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee. He said he may consider formal hearings if prices keep rising. The average price of regular unleaded in Ohio is...

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain on Thursday defended Sen. John Kerry's record on national security, undercutting the Bush-Cheney campaign's latest attacks on the Democratic presidential challenger and frustrating conservatives hoping for a unified front against the Massachusetts senator. "I do not believe that he is, quote, weak on defense," McCain, R-Ariz., said on NBC's Today show. Earlier, on the CBS Early Show, when asked if he agreed with Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that Kerry is a threat to national security, McCain said: "I don't think that. I think that John Kerry is a good and decent man. ....

Fort Bragg soldier flees to Canada Jeremy Hinzman enlisted to make a difference, then learned what being a soldier is really all aboutBy Patrick O'Neill (First of Two Parts) February 11, 2004 NEWS FEATURE On New Year's Eve, Jeremy Hinzman sat in a McDonald's on N.C. 401 in Fuquay-Varina explaining his precarious situation. On Dec. 20, Hinzman, a U.S. Army specialist stationed at Fort Bragg, got the news he had dreaded. His unit--the 504th Brigade, 2nd Battalion--would be shipping out to Iraq shortly after the new year for an indefinite deployment in the war on terrorism. Last year, Hinzman, 25,...

Mon Dec 1, 8:41 PM ET Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean (news - web sites) laughs after seeing a student wearing a Bush-Cheney campaign T-shirt behind him during a taping of 'Hardball,' with host Chris Matthews, Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, at Harvard University's Institute of Politics in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Rep. LaTourette’s wife says he wants a divorce after admitting to D.C. affair ‘I think Washington corrupts people’ By Albert Eisele The wife of Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Ohio) said Monday that her husband of 21 years has asked her for a divorce after admitting he is involved with another woman, a Washington lobbyist. “He called me on Friday and said he wants a divorce,” Susan LaTourette said in a telephone call from her workplace near the Cleveland suburb of Madison Village, where she, her husband and their four children live. Susan LaTourette, who said she doesn’t know where her...

CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. June 27-29, 2003. N=1,003 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3. . "Do you think marriages between homosexuals should or should not be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages?" ShouldBe Valid ShouldNot Be NoOpinion % % % 6/03 39 55 6 1/00 34 62 4 2/99 35 62 3 3/096 27 68 5  

These UNOFFICIAL RESULTS have not been certified and are subject to change as data is corrected by the local electoral board. This page will automatically refresh every two minutes. Results last updated 09:09 PM Tuesday, June 10, 2003. State Results Previous Page Top of Page PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY - State House District 052 (Republican Primary) Totals 58.04% J M Frederick 41.96% J A Rollison III 16 of 16 precincts reporting

"Right this way.... You're late, Saddam's funeral has already started." "So it is agreed, Mr. Chirac. You will send me missiles and we will send you testosterone." "This is how I cross my legs when I'm feeling cutesy-- why aren't you doing it?"

I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush Terry Jones Sunday January 26, 2003 The Observer I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I! For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what. I've been round to his...

I had a brief conversation with the office of the Mississippi Republican Party. There was great disappointment when they answered my first question: Is there a provision in the Mississippi Constitution for the people to recall the govenor? Answer: Unfortunately not. Well, I guess we can't get a petition drive going to boot out Robert Musgrove so that new GOP Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck could take over. Amy was recently welcomed with open arms as she switched parties. The next question was whether Trent Lott would leave the Senate if demoted from his position as majority leader. According to communications...

MIDI - BEND ME, SHAPE ME I am in big trouble, so says my tarot card reader I will do the things that I must to stay Senate leader I will get down on my knees And then I'll grovel and plead Jesse and Al…oh, pretty please I'll bend over and I'll grab my ankles Tell me what's needed, my good friends I'll bend over and I'll grab my ankles I am prepared to take it in the end I am finally seeing the light…we need reparations Giving people what they deserve will heal our nation I will get...

I have wanted Trent Lott removed from leadership since Impeachment. The spineless weasel had the votes to bring live witnesses before the Senate on national television that would have revealed the extent of Bill Clinton's sexual predator history. David Schippers called it a SELLOUT. Schippers was absolutely correct. Could the prosecutors have changed enough minds to get 67 votes? We will never know. They should have had the opportunity to try. Lott is the one who stood in the way. The RATS have been in turmoil since the midterm elections. They were shocked to their core. And now, Lott puts...

MIDI - DECK THE HALLS Deck the halls with Trent Lott's ******...Fa la la la la la la la la Send him out among the nomads...Fa la la la la la la la la On his leadership we've soured...Fa la la la la la la la la He's a spineless weasel coward...Fa la la la la la la la la He is weaker than Puff Daschle...Fa la la la la la la la la Let's throw him out with the trash-el...Fa la la la la la la la la On his leadership we've soured...Fa la la la la la...

MIDI - UP ON THE HOUSETOP Up on his phone books see Daschle stand He is barking out commands Nobody listens to Tommy Boy He's not enjoying much Christmas joy Ho ho ho…it's time to go Ho ho ho…it's time to go-o While he attacks talk radio Tommy, it really is time to go He lost and now he is going mad It is a tough year he's had Now he will hand power off to Lott I know, Trent is such a spineless snot Ho ho ho…it's time to go Ho ho ho…it's time to go-o While he...

MIDI - CRYING He's getting mad…he's ignored…he was on the Senate floor It's outrageous, he said…he almost lost his head He was seen as such a fool It was just a ploy…little Tommy Boy And now he's whining like a child…whining like a child Poor Tom senses doom…George Bush sent him to his room And now he's whining…whining…whining…whining He sounded like a nut…his allowance was cut So now he's whining Obstruction is the game he plays…he delays and delays The "stupid frat boy" came through…he knew just what to do With Gephardt he made a deal Tommy senses doom…he...

MIDI - PS, I LOVE YOU I'm the Senate leader…I'll report to you When George Bush starts the bombing…fellow RATS, we are screwed I think he'll surprise us in October…for us, it will be over PS, we are screwed…screwed, screwed, screwed We won't get away with our obstruction…that's not a tough deduction PS, we are screwed…screwed, screwed, screwed We have no agenda…and I have a hunch As we go down the crapper…he'll be eating our lunch Voters we can't be forever fooling…this battle has been grueling PS, we are screwed…screwed, screwed, screwed We have no agenda…and I have a...

Since I am approaching my one year anniversary of being a "freeper" and since I have never contributed a dime to FR, jim or the republican party, I am going to beat the powers to be at FR and voluntarily leave, rather than have them come up with one of the cock and bull stories to ban me. Been fun,Bye

(font size=+2>ATTENTION: Tonight at 6:00 PM Pacific there will be a half hour special edition of the DFU Radio Hour. My guest will be Lt. Col. Tom McKenney (Ret). McKenney appeared on the CLINTON CHRONICLES video and wrote a devastating chapter in the CLINTON CHRONICLES BOOK entitled "The Unthinkable Commander in Chief." Although he is in ill health, McKenney agreed to talk about Bill Clinton in Somalia. As you know, Clinton has been making some comments about Somalia in which he referred to "not blaming Bush's father" for what happened there. McKenney knows all about the shameless puke and...