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So my oldest likes to expose me to his playlists in the car, and sometimes this prompts a nice discussion. He played this song for me and I'd never heard it before, and now for days it is on my mind. It disturbs me more than your shoot-up-a-cop rap song. I'm listening for the first time and can't really understand. It's a sweet, happy, bouncy chorus. Then I understand "all the other kids... Better run faster than my bullets". "outrun my gun.". I ask my son, is this what it sounds like? Is it PRO shooting up your school?? My...

For about a week now, in multiple browsers and from iPad and iMac, Free Republic has been deadly slow. Frequently it times out waiting to load. This is on FIOS at top speed, both wireless and wired. No other site is even slightly slow for me. I don't see any other threads mentioning this, and I've posted to the yahoo group with no responses, so I am assuming it's me. What could I be doing wrong? Or has this been your experience too? What's up?

What are conservatives' ultimate goals for the 2012 presidential election? Is part of our problem that we don't all have the same priorities? What is your top priority in the election, one of the following, or yet another? - to coalesce around someone whom you think could beat Obama - to elect as nominee the most consistent, trustworthy conservative possible - to cast the most pure conservative individual vote you can Because we have these candidates and a variety of top priorities, this primary season is like herding cats. What's your absolute priority? And why?

Dear Herman Cain, You have a lot of donating, dedicated supporters and I have been proud to call myself one. I'm becoming disappointed by you and I am not alone. As you think of how to go about campaigning through this partisan media onslaught, please listen to the supporters who wish they could vote for you, in the primaries as well as for President against Barack Obama. If this latest slam against you, the 13-year sexual affair, is a total fabrication, please fight it vociferously today and have your attorney do the same. His response yesterday causes us to doubt...

On Free Republic, we post articles from the Mainstream Media with original headlines and content or link, in order to comment on them. But these negative articles and the clips on MSM news programs are starting to affect FReepers' opinions of Herman Cain's abilities. We need to remember two things. Our President does not need to be an encyclopedia of facts like a savant. He needs to have the wisdom and the heart to choose the path that best benefits America and applies conservative principles to the problem at hand, foreign or domestic. Also, we are not in a race...

If we do not want the mainstream media to choose our candidate, we need to fight the forest and not the trees. If the media has their way, they will control the whole story. Their story will be "Herman Cain did X. We will investigate. Is this story true? If so, he is done." They want us to jump into their story and try to prove the accusation is false. That is their paradigm, not ours. It is simple to control the story, but we have to avoid falling for theirs. Our story, no matter what they say, has to...

President Clinton is doing his clever best, but Cain comes along out of the audience and schools him but good. This is a must see. Sorry if it's been posted before but this is worth a repeat, if so. This is why Herman Cain would be a great President right here! Bill, better put some ice on that.

Editorial by John Ziegler An Open E-mail to Sarah Palin 10/5/2011 The following is an actual e-mail "Media Malpractice, How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted" Filmmaker John Ziegler sent to Sarah Palin's personal e-mail address after she announced she was not running for president. Dear Governor Palin: Wow. So, is this really how your political saga is going end? By letting down your remaining supporters and telling them, with a straight face, that you can do more to impact change as a Fox News Contributor than you can as President of the United States? I was almost positive...

The coolest thing ever! That was amazing. Waiting for the fireworks but to see the space station go by was even cooler! Anyone else see it too?

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Their marriage has become the subject of intense speculation and scrutiny amid an embarrassing online sex scandal. Now, Representative Anthony D. Weiner and Huma Abedin are about to make news of a different kind: they are expecting their first child. Mr. Abedin, 35, is in the early stages of pregnancy, according to three people with knowledge of the situation. The pregnancy, which the couple has disclosed to close friends and family, adds a new dimension to questions about the future of their marriage.

Rep. Anthony Weiner used an unflattering Jewish sexual stereotype during another Facebook sexting session with a middle-aged woman,... WARNING: Salacious though edited conversation at link.

They just announced breaking news on KFI in Los Angeles that there has been an arrest made in this case. More when they know more. The station has done the most coverage of this heinous crime, and some of the hosts have been very close to the Stow family throughout. This is very exciting that finally some progress has been made. Poor Bryan Stow was beaten by gang-appearing thugs in the parking Lot of dodgers stadium after the opening night game, only because he was wearing a Giants jersey. He was an EMT worker with two children. He has extensive...

... and I wanted any tips anyone has for the first few days of recovery. I know the foot has a lot of nerves in it and I am worried about the pain. I have visited "Dr. Google" and people recovering from the same surgery mention the word AGONY a lot. Mama wants to minimize the pain for her kid! He is 14, the surgery is to remove an accessory navicular bone that has grown on his foot in the last two years and since he is a competitive athlete, it's causing him a lot of pain. So he really...

Is it OK to ask for simple "GRAPHIC WARNING" to be said before posting any photos of any gruesome dead bodies? I don't have a problem with them being posted, just would like a warning to be seen BEFORE the photo. If you want to stick a photo of bin Laden or Uday and Qusay, or whomever, especially the bloody ones, can you give the GRAPHIC WARNING and then do this / / / enough times to give someone a chance to not see it, or speed past it? We sensitive people want you to see it and we want...

Breaking news keeps you on your toes -- or not! Short video clip at link; reporter blows the name of who died in a dramatic way.

Today Rush ended his show with this: "It looks like Donald Trump is the true illegal alien around here. [pause] After all, he is doing the work most Americans would not do." Bada bing! (Rush also said Trump would be on the show later this week.)

(Reuters) - Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) said it expected to cancel 300 flights scheduled for Saturday to allow inspections of 79 aircraft from its Boeing 737 fleet, after one of its planes made an emergency landing with a gaping hole in the fuselage. Passengers aboard Southwest Flight 812 from Phoenix to Sacramento on Friday heard a loud noise and the hole appeared suddenly at about mid cabin, forcing the pilot to land at a military base in Yuma, Arizona. [Read more at link]

Last night I went into Cost Plus for some imported candy treats for the kids. I've also been seeking Chanukah wrapping paper, which is nowhere to be found in stores this year. I noticed that they had a huge section in the middle of the store under the sign "Holiday Wrap." As I perused the many bins, I found that every single roll of wrapping paper had Christmas themes or colors. What was the original intent of transforming Christmas into the generic "holidays?" Wasn't it to not exclude the other religions who might possibly be celebrating Chanukah, Eid, Kwanzaa, or...

The TSA, Homeland Security, and the Obama administration all are saying these scans and pat-downs are important to keep us safe. This is ludicrous. Terrorists are aware of America's reactionary-only airport security measures. A bomb found in the underwear? OK, that is where America will next be looking. So they'll put the next suicide bomber into the security line with C4 in his watch or sunglasses. He may be in line behind you right now on his test run. Or does he have the stuff in his rectum, or inside a special tampon where the sun never shines on his...