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(KSL News) Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he probably won't make another run for the nation's highest office. According to Politico.com, Romney said, "I think it's quite unlikely that I would run for office again. …I gave this my best effort. My experience in politics is that the window opens rarely. It opened for me. I stepped through it, got on the stage and did my darnedest to win the nomination. John McCain was successful and I was not." The Web site says Romney told Dennis Roddy of the Pittsburg-Post Gazette that he'd prefer to contribute outside electoral...

This Administration including Paulson, Bernanke & Cox think the American People are idiots.

Washington Mutual CEO Kerry Killinger stood before a Wall Street investors' conference last September and declared that his company — the company he had led since 1990 and built into the nation's sixth-largest bank and one of its biggest home lenders — not only would survive the collapse of the mortgage bubble but would prosper. Despite what Killinger called "a near-perfect storm" in the U.S. housing market, he said, "We have appropriate capital and sources of liquidity (i.e., cash) to weather the storm." Killinger declared that WaMu would add billions in new mortgages to its books, in a bid to...

Sorry if this is old news but this is the first time I've seen this movie. In "Shut Up And Sing" Natalie Maines names FR as the blog that started all thier probelems. WAY TO GO FR! Still watching on the Encore Drama channel.

Dear Jim..OK, the GOP now has its candidate. McCain isn't the first choice of the majority of us on FR, and even now, there are spirited, yet for the most part, civil exchanges on the threads as to whether or not some will support the GOP nominee. One of the more unfortunate, and unpleasant events on FR was the mass banishment and/or leaving of a great many Freepers who were supporters of Rudy Guliani for the nomination. I'm posting this to see if you'd be open to the idea of inviting them to return, and see how others might feel...

SAVAGE is LIVE!

Vote to dismiss Churchill passed 8-1

Video cameras scattered throughout Downtown and other neighborhoods would eventually be linked in a surveillance network, under a proposal by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. A week ago, the city sent 21 security companies an outline of a plan to cast a video surveillance web from Downtown to high-crime neighborhoods, and maybe beyond. The administration wants firms to compete this year to craft a plan and win a camera contract. Cameras "will provide more security for the citizens," said Police Chief Nate Harper. Video evidence can make prosecutions for everything from drunken driving...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - Police are asking Colorado women a rather delicate question: Are these your panties? As part of an investigation into widespread underwear theft, police have invited women to view photos of about 1,300 undergarments stolen from laundry rooms near Colorado State University. Chih Hsien Wu, 43, is suspected of stealing $6,000 worth of undergarments between Sept. 23 and May 18. He was arrested on suspicion of felony theft, and his bail was set Wednesday at $15,000. It was not known whether he had an attorney. Police issued the invitation as part of an effort to see...

Bill Frist doesn’t know who is going to win the 2008 Republican primary, let alone the final list of candidates. One thing Frist does know for sure is if his friend and former U.S. Senate colleague Fred Thompson decides to enter the race, he will be “very, very supportive” of a Thompson candidacy. But with some polls showing Thompson, Tennessee’s second-most-recent former Republican senator, in third place among GOP presidential hopefuls – only weeks after he first hinted that he was considering running for president – talk of Fred Thompson dominated much of Frist’s visit. Frist confirmed much of the...

Scientists prepare to move Doomsday Clock forward Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:22 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The keepers of the "Doomsday Clock" plan to move its hands forward next Wednesday to reflect what they call worsening nuclear and climate threats to the world. The symbolic clock, maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, currently is set at seven minutes to midnight, with midnight marking global catastrophe. The group did not say in which direction the hands would move. But in a news release previewing an event next Wednesday, they said the change was based on "worsening nuclear, climate threats"...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, March 20, 2006) – Miss USA Chelsea Cooley soared through the sky at an altitude of 13,000 feet during a tandem skydive with the U.S. Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights, March 14. The tandem jump was coordinated in conjunction with her USO visit to Fort Bragg, N.C. Millions of people in more than 90 countries watched as Cooley was crowned Miss USA April 11, 2005. A native of Charlotte, N.C., Cooley has spent the past year as Miss USA, championing the causes of breast and ovarian cancer education and research. Cooley has also become a...

Table of Contents Authors’ Foreword PrologueDramatis Personae The SceneThe Dialogue The so-called “Cartesian Split” What is “all that there is?” Pure, blind chance? First reality and second realities What is knowledge? Does science “have it in” for God? Is Intelligent Design science? What is matter? What lies at the beginning of “all that there is?” Aristotle’s Four Causes What is “randomness?” First Adam, Second Adam Is science “killing the soul?” The Public Square: a “values-neutral zone?” What is science? What is the universe? What is life? What is reality? Endnotes Appendix Nuts and Bolts Numbers Big and Small Combinatorics,...

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.

SINGAPORE (AP) - Oil prices fell in Asian trading Tuesday after losing nearly US$2 a barrel in the previous session amid easing concerns about the possibility of more production cuts by OPEC members. The contract dropped 3 per cent overnight in New York as traders discounted threats of output cuts and focused on high U.S. oil product inventories. Despite reduced refinery runs, traders were expecting to see a build in U.S. gasoline and distillate stocks in weekly petroleum supply data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Energy. Light, sweet crude for November delivery dropped 11 cents to US$60.92 a...

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A mother of 10 who says she experiences up to 40 orgasms a day due to a medical condition defrauded the UK's welfare system of $15,000. Ruth Leach, 50, was spotted by benefit fraud investigators when she appeared on British television and in magazines telling of her condition - persistent sexual arousal syndrome. The Times reports that the Department of Work and Pensions took a keen interest because she mentioned she had a 22-year-old lodger, Simon Leach. Their investigators found Leach - who she has since married - was her lover and that she had been claiming nearly $15,000 in...

Press converence at White House on CNN. LOL. All the news chick could say was, "Wow!"

NEW YORK -- The New York Times plans to cut 1,050 jobs and shrink the size of its pages in 2008, making them one-and-a-half inches narrower, the newspaper reported in today's edition. ADVERTISEMENT The job cuts include 800 positions at a New Jersey printing plant whose workload will shift to another in New York City, the article said, estimating the moves would save $42 million per year. The reduction in the size of its pages would mean a loss of 11 percent of the space devoted to news, but the newspaper plans to add pages to make up for about...

Per FoxNews Alert: Per Reuters, President Bush has made a surprise visit to Iraq. Developing........... Overnight flew 11 hours to Baghdad, meeting now with Iraqi government officials.

June 13, 2006, 6:44 a.m. No Indictment of Rove in CIA-Leak CaseProsecutor Patrick Fitzgerald makes a decision. By Byron York Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has informed top White House adviser Karl Rove that Rove will not face indictment in the CIA-leak investigation, National Review Online has learned. The word came yesterday, when Fitzgerald told Rove lawyer Robert Luskin that he, Fitzgerald, did not plan to seek charges against Rove. This morning, Luskin released a brief statement:  On June 12, 2006, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald formally advised us that he does not anticipate seeking charges against Karl Rove. In deference to...

3 Gitmo Detainees Reportedly Hang Selves (AP) WASHINGTON Three Guantanamo Bay detainees hanged themselves with nooses made of sheets and clothes, the commander of the detention center said Saturday. They were the first reported deaths among the hundreds of men held at the base in Cuba — some of them for up to 4 1/2 years and without charge. Two men from Saudi Arabia and one from Yemen were found "unresponsive and not breathing in their cells" early Saturday, according to a statement from the Miami-based U.S. Southern Command, which has jurisdiction over the prison. Attempts were made to revive...

While driving in New York this weekend. I noticed a DRAMATIC decreased from the recent years the past. I was on the road all four days doing 200 miles a day around the outside main sorce routes for NYC and traffic was compared to minimal for memoral day weekend! NO TRAFFIC???? Is this just NY???? Are oil companies going to start reducing their prices with a direct decrease in the use of their product compared to SPLY last year??????N-

Yesterday, a co-worker came into my office, planted a document on my desk, leaned over and began explaining it to me. What she didn't realize was that by leaning over, her loose blouse fell open and Hootchie Mama, I saw some things that only her husband and her doctor were entitled to see.It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion. I couldn't look away. I stood up but then I could see even farther down to the tattoos on her stomach.What should I have done? Should I have said something?

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Euan Blair, the British Prime Minister's eldest son, is to take up an internship working on Capitol Hill in Washington for a leading Republican in the House of Representatives. The 21-year-old, who is about to graduate from Bristol University with a degree in ancient history, will spend three months as an unpaid intern with the Republican majority staff on the powerful Rules Committee. Euan Blair's internship follows Prime Minister John Howard's son Richard's 2004 spell working for President George Bush's re-election campaign. The UK Sunday Telegraph reported that Blair will be mentored by the chairman of the committee, David Dreier,...

Top 7 Stories of 2005 These are the stories that really mattered to the life of our nation and our world. If you're wondering where the Valerie Plame scandal is ranked on here, its not. Here, they are in order of least importance: 7. The rise of the Minuteman: Jim Gilchrist and his minutemen forced the issue onto the national agenda. Gilchrist, himself lost a bid as an Independent Candidate for Congress, but his strong showing sent a message to Washington, and they'll ignore it at their peril.

-snip- Levy, 31, has written a book on a topic as prickly as its hot-pink cover. "Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture" is a collection of investigative pieces that takes the author from a spring-break Florida beach where giggling college students lift their shirts for video crews from the popular "Girls Gone Wild" soft-core empire and backstage with the women producers of Comedy Central's erstwhile Juggy-fest, "The Man Show" to interviews with teens and 20-somethings on their attitudes toward sex. It's part of the job description of being female, to couch all their success and intelligence...

A White House Christmas 2005All information taken from http://www.whitehouse.gov .WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE! This year’s theme has been chosen to highlight the beauty to be found in nature. Our emphasis for this holiday season is on some of the many ways that plants, trees, fruit and flowers can be the stars of holiday decorating. The members of the White House Executive Residence staff and floral designers from across the country have worked tirelessly and creatively to make the White House reflect the wonders of nature’s bounty. Our thanks go to all whose deft hands...

    What memories do you have from Christmases past?  What recipes have been handed down through the years in your family?  Do you have a tradition to share?  A Christmas craft to show?  Is there something that you think of while you are away from home that gives you those warm fuzzy feelings?  Share with us!  We'd love to hear it! Grandma's Old-Fashioned Stack Cake(A Christmas Favorite in Gummy's Family)3/4 cups shortening 1 cup sugar 1 cup molasses 3 eggs 6 cups all-purpose flour 2 t baking powder 1/2 t soda 1 t salt 2 t ginger (ground)...

  We Support Our Troops!!!!  Thank you for your service!!! Let's hear what YOU want for Christmas this year. If you don't celebrate Christmas, we'd still love to hear what new toy, gadget, gizmo, or whatchamacallit you'd like to have.  If you don't know, Gummy  has some ideas for you!! Just look below.  Some of our Canteeners have offered suggestions, too.       HiJinx Okay, at the top of my political wish list is Zarqawi's head on a spike. At the top of my tech wish list is a top of the line 19" LCD monitor. At the top of...

Gummy Style!            Newsflash:  Gummy Hates to Shop November 22, 2005 I hate to shop.  I know. You are thinking, "She's not normal."  Perhaps I should clarify.  I hate to drive to a busy mall or store, get out, fight the crowds, look in umpteen stores for the best bargain, and come home with nothing but achy feet and head.  When Al Gore invented the internet, he did it for me.  Honest. (Psssst....He would have told you that, but he's afraid you wouldn't believe him.) OK,  you've guessed it...I do all my shopping online.  Below are my best tips for online...

I spent this morning helping prepare the Aurora Christian Center for approx. 200 Katrina refugees. The already aged hot water boiler had not been used in over 18 months and needed to be replaced, I helped with the installation. I also worked fixing leaky pipes with a fireman that had volunteered to go to Baghdad (to help train the Iraqi fire dept.), he could not begin to describe the depth of the conditions for women and children in Iraq, he said that we are doing great work there that is not being reported. I hope that in some small...

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends~ Born on this Day 1533 England's Queen Elizabeth I Born on this Day 1936 singer Buddy Holly Born on this Day 1950 author Peggy Noonan Noonan served as a speechwriter for U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. She coined the phrase "a kinder, gentler nation" and also popularized H.G. Well's "a thousand points of light," two memorable catchphrases used...

"But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and...

Cindy Sheehan, left, waves to supporters after arriving at Waco Regional Airport in Waco, Texas, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2005. Sheehan has returned to Texas and her anti-war vigil outside President Bush's ranch near Crawford.

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April 21, 2005 Dear Listeners, I wanted to thank each and every one of you for your help and support during my cancer surgery and convalescence. You have been absolutely great. I have received letters, books, CDs, DVDs, religious items, food baskets, handmade goodies and much more from people who have become acquainted with me solely through "The Tony Snow Show." The good news is I’m feeling great. I mean, really great — so great that I’m ready to go back on the air full-time. I’ll take back the microphone on the 25th and can’t wait. The good thing about...

When I was in high school, every once in a while, our class would be visited by a graduate who was currently attending a college as a Freshman or Sophomore. As this college student would speak with his former teacher, we would be somewhat impressed with the “vast knowledge” of this person who seemed like a man of the world in comparison to us mere high school kids. Of course, these college guys weren’t really all that knowledgeable but they still appeared to make an impression on us little high school kids who didn’t know any better. And now...

Where the heck is everyone that went to the Ball? Anyway, let me give me account, and I am truly sorry that I don't have webspace to upload photos into, I will send mine to Bob Wood and he can do them soon hopefully. Anyway,my friend Fran and I arrived at about 12 noon. We were with a couple that I know from Il but they had bleacher seats, so we seperated getting off at different stops on the Metro. We arrived at the Penn 7th and were all fine and dandy, some silly banter going back and forth between...

He (hearts) rock-and-roll: Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won't just be another Republican party animal during inaugural festivities. He'll be part of the entertainment. Huckabee brings his rock band, Capitol Offense, back to Washington this week to play at a ball put on by Free Republic, a conservative news and activism Web site. "We played four years ago," the bass-playing governor told us. "It's one of those wonderful situations where it's rare to be invited the first time and even more rare to be invited back." The band's three-hour set will include boomer-pleasing songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Rolling Stones,...

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Hello- I am a frequent lurker- this is my 1st post. My wife has manned the phone bank at the local republican headquarters- I was asked to help as well. I am a mostly silent partner in a telemarketing business- so I thought big. I offered (for free) our services to do a phone blast of "unattended messages", that is the recorded calls that politicians love to make. I received a list of 9,000 republicans from the local party chairmen. he enlisted our Lt. Governor to record a 30 second call- we ran it today- it took about 4 hours...

First event is at the Lake Eola Bandshell downtown Orlando, corner East Washington Street and North Rosalind Ave in 32801 17:30 hrs (5:30 PM National Guard time) Movie "Stolen Honor" will be shown there. Bring any undecideds. (Mapquest for directions) Afterparty at Chapters Restaurant, 358 North Park Ave (corner of Canton) Winter Park 32789 About 8-10 minutes from Bandshell. Best route is I-4 east to Fairbanks Ave East, (about 3 miles,) right turn coming off Interstate. Then about 3 miles east on Fairbanks (over RR tracks,) to left at Park Avenue (at small 7/11) About one mile north on Park...

Vote to reelect President George W. Bush! And the Mad Man from Motor City agrees, Cynthia Cassell is the right choice for United States Congress in the 13th District!

President coming to JacksonvillePresident George Bush will be in Jacksonville for a rally Saturday, according to the county's top Republican leader. Plans are still being finalized, but Bush plans a daytime rally at The Jacksonville Landing, according to Duval County GOP Chairman Mike Hightower.

JUST ANNOUNCED ON WIOD RADIO: THE VOTE FOR CHANGE CONCERT AT THE PUNY LITTLE JACKIE GLEASON THEATRE IN MIAMI BEACH HAS BEEN "POSTPONED" POSSIBLE UNTIL AFTER HURRICANE SEASON...JOHN MELLENCAMP WASN'T SELLING ENOUGH TICKETS!

My 15.5 year old daughter just received notice that she has been selected to attend the Republican National Convention as part of the Junior Statesmen Program through Northwestern University. She's going to have private meetings with key Senators, Cabinet members, Congressmen and staffers. Maybe even a photo op with Condi, Laura or Jenna. What a blast for a great kid.She just completed an intensive program in American Government at Northwestern, where they take 100 high school kids and have them spend 6 weeks in the dorms at Northwestern attending classes 5 days a week and meeting with Congressional staffers and...

'Simpsons' cast gets more D'oh! LOS ANGELES (AP) — A month after stalled contract renewal talks led the voices of The Simpsons to stop work, both the actors and Fox are getting more "D'oh!" Terms of the deal were not announced for the actors who provide the voices for Homer and Marge Simpson and other characters on the long-running animated series. The loss of even a few episodes of The Simpsons, would be financially painful for the network. Fox "We couldn't be happier to have reached a multiyear deal with the enormously talented cast of The Simpsons, " series producer...