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  • 11 Popular Songs You Didn’t Realize Are Actually Racist

    07/11/2023 5:48:42 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 105 replies
    Reader's Digest ^ | 6/21/23 | Jeremy Helligar
    You may have been singing along to them for years, but have you ever really thought about their lyrics? If not, it's definitely time. “Brown Sugar” by The Rolling Stones Some things don’t deserve to be sung about, like slavery—especially when the song uses whipping imagery as it attempts to demonstrate the sexual prowess of Black women. But yet that’s precisely what Mick Jagger did in The Rolling Stones’ 1971 smash “Brown Sugar.” The title was offensive enough, but in the first verse, Jagger travels back to the plantation to peek in on the slave owners who used to make...
  • Get Back To Basics: 1. Beautiful Becky Spelman Playing Catch With A Dog. 2. Harriet Tubman's Wisdom For Freedom. (Not Joe Biden's Ever Ballooning Debt.)

    03/09/2023 10:19:56 PM PST · by Ozguy1945
    Westerners need to get back to basics. It's cheaper. A beautiful woman having fun playing catch with a dog. (Click red link below title above.) Absorbing wisdom of great Americans like Harriett Tubman, who passed away 110 years ago today, March 10. (“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”) The West does NOT need a president like Biden who coul take U.S. national debt to $51 trillion by 2033:...
  • More COVID-19 variants could come if people remain unvaccinated

    01/10/2022 7:18:01 PM PST · by Trillian · 69 replies
    MSM Health ^ | January 10, 2022 | Herb Scribner
    New major COVID-19 variants will emerge if people don’t get vaccinated against the coronavirus, experts recently told CNBC. “Until the whole world is vaccinated, not just rich Western countries, I think we are going to remain in danger of new variants coming along and some of those could be more virulent than omicron,” Dr. Andrew Freedman, an academic in infectious diseases at Cardiff University Medical School, told CNBC. Freedman said viruses “tend to become milder” with time, but that “isn’t always the case.” “It may well be with future variants that they are even more contagious, they may be milder,...
  • Obama slams 'crazy stuff' coming out of Trump White House, hits politicizing of Justice Department

    09/07/2018 11:05:33 AM PDT · by seanmerc · 42 replies
    NBC News ^ | 7 Sep 18 | Alex Seitz-Wald
    Warning that these are "extraordinary" and "dangerous" times, former President Barack Obama on Friday unleashed his most direct and forceful attack on President Donald Trump and said internal resistance in the administration is not the right way to stop him. During a speech at the University of Illinois, Obama slammed "crazy stuff" coming out of the Trump White House and blasted the president for trying to politicize the Justice Department.
  • Romney: Trump's remarks at Putin summit 'disgraceful and detrimental to democratic principles'

    07/19/2018 6:17:49 PM PDT · by libh8er · 102 replies
    The Hill ^ | 7/16/2018 | Max Greenwood
    Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney tore into President Trump on Monday after Trump challenged the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, calling Trump's behavior "disgraceful and detrimental to our democratic principles." Romney's comments came hours after Trump held a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, in which he questioned whether Russia was behind efforts to meddle in the 2016 election. "President Trump's decision to side with Putin over American intelligence agencies is disgraceful and detrimental to our democratic principles," Romney, who is running for Senate in Utah, said in a...
  • 'It hurt': Clinton says Sanders dragged out nomination fight

    09/12/2017 9:41:25 AM PDT · by C19fan · 79 replies
    Yahoo ^ | September 12, 2017 | Dylan Stableford
    Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders’s reluctance to concede the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination before the party’s convention was disrespectful, hurtful and stood in stark contrast to the way she handled her primary loss to Barack Obama in 2008. “I had such a different experience in ’08,” Clinton said in an interview with the “Pod Save America” podcast that was posted on Tuesday. “Once it was over, it was over. And I quickly endorsed President Obama. I worked really hard to get him elected. I was still arguing with my supporters at the Denver convention, telling people, ‘Don’t be ridiculous. You’ve...
  • Bush backs Obama, Turkey in Russian warplane dispute

    11/25/2015 10:18:48 AM PST · by jimbo123 · 37 replies
    CNN ^ | 11/25/15 | Tom LoBianco
    Jeb Bush said Wednesday he supports Turkey in the dispute that resulted in Russian warplane being shot down Tuesday near the border between Turkey and Syria. "I believe Turkey, but it will be verified by all sorts of ways through technology. Turkey is a NATO ally they are an integral part if we're to be successful in the fight against ISIS and to change regimes, to take out Assad, it used to be our objective," Bush told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day." "If we're serious about that, Turkey needs to be an ally and we need to show support....
  • Gov. Christie, at Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology, blames D.C. for federal shutdown

    10/05/2013 7:52:26 PM PDT · by Tailgunner Joe · 10 replies
    nj.com ^ | October 05, 2013 | Charles Hack
    HOBOKEN – Gov. Chris Christie blamed the four-day federal shutdown on a “fundamental failure” of leadership by legislators in Washington D.C. in an address yesterday to hundreds of students at the Stevens Institute of Technology. “Thank you for giving us optimism about the future, as we watch the craziness going on as we speak in Washington D.C.,” Christie said, wrapping up his speech to students and faculty. “It’s a fundamental failure where you are put in charge of running a government, you know, to close it. That’s not in the job description, I can guarantee that.” Christie was only scheduled...
  • Purge the RINOs and the RINO Apologists

    04/28/2009 7:57:14 PM PDT · by Natural Law · 82 replies · 1,817+ views
    4/28/09 | Natural law
    I am as sick to death of RINO apologists as I am the RINOs themselves. Too many real conservatives took a lot of flack here on FR during the last mid term and presidential election cycles for expecting Republicans to actually legislate like Republicans rather voting for every Obama-lite candidate with an “R” after their names who just might be electable. To too many, elections are about partisan score keeping and not about the direction and future of the country. Many conservatives received a lot of undeserved criticism because they refused to vote straight party line or choose the lesser...
  • China bitter over U.S. trade actions

    05/19/2007 9:10:05 PM PDT · by Flavius · 31 replies · 878+ views
    upi ^ | 5/19/07 | upi
    SHANGHAI, May 19 (UPI) -- Chinese leaders are angry about what they perceive as bullying behavior by the United States on trade issues, it was reported Saturday. The increased strain between the two countries comes as China prepares to bring a delegation to Washington next week for high-level economic talks, the Washington Post reported.
  • McCain: Vietnam Lessons Forgotten In Iraq

    11/28/2006 7:27:16 AM PST · by areafiftyone · 37 replies · 763+ views
    MSNBC ^ | 11/28/06
    Sen. John McCain says the Vietnam War taught a generation of U.S. leaders two lessons, both of them ignored in Iraq. * You must have the public’s support to wage war. * Use overwhelming force while waging it. “We seem to have forgotten them in the conduct of this conflict and it’s costing us an enormous amount – not just in Iraq but all over the world,” said the likely Republican presidential candidate in 2008. He is joined by three other veterans, including Washington fixture Jack Valenti, on a HOTSOUP.com Hot Issues panel about the Iraq-Vietnam parallels. McCain supported the...
  • Question for my Fellow Freepers...

    03/23/2005 5:09:24 PM PST · by Hildy · 342 replies · 3,458+ views
    March 23, 2005 | Hildy
    You are in your 20's, and you're visiting somebody in the hospital. You pass by a room where somebody is all contorted up, in a vegitative state. Would you say to your husband: a)Honey, Don't ever let me live in that condition. b )Honey, If I ever get like that, please make sure you do everything in your power, whatever the cost to you and our family, financially and emotionally, to keep me in that vegitative state no matter how long it takes. I want you to come and sit by my side every day and go home alone every...
  • Getting Screwed by the GOP on a Running Basis

    11/17/2004 8:04:29 PM PST · by Henchman · 79 replies · 2,363+ views
    11/17/04 | Henchman
    VANITY Well today it looks like the GOP will back SPECTER for Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Specter is to publicly announce (see related threads on FR) that he will not block a nomination based ona proposed Judge's stanc on abortion. No mention of Specter backing strict Constitutional Constructionists, not activists. IMHO, Specter will find another reason to Bork a proposed judge. Tom DeLay was given a pass by the GOP, today. (Check the news for specifics) The GOP is also in the process of knocking out the requirement to label foreign grown fruits, etc., as to country of...
  • FR Admin Moderator Is Doing a Lousy Job!!!

    10/24/2004 8:29:17 PM PDT · by jveritas · 68 replies · 1,136+ views
    Oct/24/04 | jveritas
    FR Admin Moderator Is Doing a Lousy Job!!! Two articles were posted on FR Breaking news related to Iraq ammunition dump story by the NY Times via Drudge Report. Two trolls registered this month trying to make it like the end of the Bush administration posted these two articles. Of course it got over 800 replies so far and all the gloomers and dommers, knee jerk people on FR came on to post their gloom and doom about a story that will have zero impact. The Admin Moderator has been asleep and did not realize that this insignificant story was...