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Pictures for the first New Haven, Connecticut Freeper meeting at Chowder Pot in Branford Great food, great conversation, great time (Didn't see anyone else posting yet - Race, please help me with name) I believe we had the following people - Mojo114 & husband, KosmicKitty & Mr Kitty, Race Bannon, Fierce Alligience & friend Kelly, Ct Little Tiger, CT_Libertarian, & PuppyPusher - please forgive me if I have left anyone out or not gotten names correct. Chowing down on some wonderful seafood From Left to Right - KosmicKitty, PuppyPusher, CT_Libertarian, CT Little Tiger, Race_Bannon, Firece_Alliegience Great time had by all!!...

Moonbats are alive and well in Kenmore Square By Howie Carr Boston Herald Columnist Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Boston City Councilor Jerry McDermott, meet Moonbat Nation. All it takes is a press release saying that maybe the huge flashing sign in Kenmore Square advertising the Hugo Chavez-controlled CITGO oil company should be replaced by a giant American flag. Just send out that one little press release, and all of a sudden, you’re a tool of Halliburton, a capitalist-roader, a veritable . . . Chris Wallace. One night, you’re sipping a cold one at The Stockyard. The next, hundreds - thousands...

A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University's ultra-secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo. The letter, written by one member of Skull and Bones to another, purports that the skull and some of the Indian leader's remains were spirited from his burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to a stone tomb in New Haven that serves as the club's headquarters. According to Skull and Bones legend, members _ including President Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush _ dug up Geronimo's grave when a...

HARTFORD, Conn. - A Yale University historian discovered a 1918 letter that raises anew questions about a secretive Yale student society and the remains of the American Indian leader Geronimo. The letter, written by a member of Skull and Bones to another member of the society, purports that some of the Indian leader's remains were spirited from his burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to a stone tomb in New Haven that serves as the club's headquarters. A portion of the letter and an accompanying story were posted Monday on the Yale Alumni Magazine's Web site. At one of the...

The publisher says the clues are already out there — on the cover of The Da Vinci Code THE ink is not yet dry on the eagerly awaited sequel to The Da Vinci Code, but already fans of the publishing phenomenon believe that they have deciphered clues to its plot. The CIA, the Freemasons, the Mormons and an unfinished pyramid on the US dollar bill are all expected to figure prominently in Dan Brown’s next adventure when it is published this year or early next. Fevered speculation has been building among the author’s legions of fans since it emerged...

October 27, 2004 IRRELEVANT WAR RECORDS, INDISTINGUISHABLE DIFFERENCES by Paul Gottfried Having run across multiple references, including in a column by David Broder, to the "presidential campaign being usurped by a long ago war," it seems reasonable to examine this phrase. How have the "60's culture wars" left their mark on our two major parties in this presidential campaign? For those wars, we have been told until the cows come home, have impacted on the race. For example, they allowed Karl Rove and other like-minded Republican strategists to bushwhack W’s Democratic rival. Kerry could have spent the month of August...

When is the last time two Skull and Bones candidates squared off in a presidential election?

WorldNetDaily Guess who's at super-secret Bilderberg meeting todayItaly hosts 50th-anniversary confab of mysterious society of world leaders Posted: June 4, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The 50th anniversary conference of the elite Bilderberg group – which many believe conspires semi-annually to foster global government – is under way in Stresa, Italy. The conference, which began yesterday and will run through Sunday, is being hosted at the Grand Hotel des Iles Borromees. Since 1953, the Bilderberg group has convened government, business, academic and journalistic representatives from the U.S., Canada and Europe with the express purpose of exploring the future of the...

On the surface, everything looks normal in New Haven this weekend as the Bush's celebrate a new generation graduating from Yale.But before you start calculating when daughter Barbara will be running for president, you should know a dark family secret: She does not belong to Skull and Bones.The society was open to women by the time that Barbara became eligible for membership her senior year, but instead she joined a newer secret society called Sage and Chalice. There is a tradition of admitting the well connected [to the exclusive club] so it seems odd not to accept a fourth generation...

The Secrets of Bush and Kerry: What Are They Hiding from Us? by John W. Whitehead 05/03/2004 “It’s so secret we can’t talk about it.”—George W. Bush “There’s not much I can say, Tim, because it’s a secret.”—John F. Kerry A recent New York Times editorial proclaimed that “there cannot be too much disclosure by a candidate seeking the trust of the public for the nation's highest office.” It continued by observing that “the path to the presidency can be rooted only in winning the public's trust.” It is a lesson our two leading presidential candidates would do well to...

Yalies Bush, Kerry can keep a secret By BOB DART The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 03/06/04 WASHINGTON -- In the spring semester of their junior year at Yale University, John Kerry and George W. Bush were tapped on the shoulder and abruptly asked: "Skull and Bones, accept or reject?" Both answered, "Accept." Kerry was initiated into this most mysterious of Yale's secret societies in 1965. In 1967, after Kerry graduated, Bush entered Skull and Bones. Thus was set up the first presidential election between Bonesmen. For generations, 15 Yale seniors — frequently future leaders of government, business, media, the arts...

We've all heard them time after time after time, in article after article after article and book after book after book (from Immaculate Deception to HoB, HoS: "Bush was a member of the Satanic anti-Christian Skull and Bones and is plotting to take over America." "Bush is collaborating with Osama bin Laden, staging the WoT for a common interest that will benefit them both." "Bush..." I know there are a number of articles out there that debunk the tin-foil-hat Bush conspiracy theories, and I'd like to put together a comprehensive set of rebuttals to these to use as ammo for...

Bush, Kerry belong to Yale’s elite secret society Bush Yale Photo, 1968 Kerry Yale Photo, 1966 jtang@media.ucla.edu When voters go the polls in November to elect a president, the two major candidates they can choose from will have a windowless tomb, secret initiation rites and a private island on the St. Lawrence River as part of their personal histories. Both incumbent President Bush and likely Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., are Yale graduates, 1968 and 1966 respectively, and are also members of Yale's secret society Skull and Bones. Each year, the exclusive society "taps" 15 distinguished third-year Yale...

Conspiracy Conspiracy fans can have a field day if Sen. John Kerry wins the Democratic nomination for president, as it appears at this time he will. Conspiracy buffs can say that, once more, the Establishment has won. Both the Democrat and the Republican nominees will be Establishment types — both are rich guys, both are Yale graduates, and both are members of the secretive and elitist Skull and Bones club at Yale. And the outsiders (Howard Dean, John Edwards and Wesley Clark) remain outside. By now, I'm used to this state of affairs and don't put a lot of stock...

Revelations that leading candidates for the US presidency were "Skull and Bones" members have provoked claims of elitism. Charles Laurence reports from New York The "tomb" stands dark and hulking at the heart of the Yale University campus, almost windowless, and shuttered and padlocked in the thick snow of winter storms. Yale's candidates for the White House pictured in their student days and the 'Skull and Bones' mascot Built to mimic a Greco-Egyptian temple, it is the headquarters of the Order of the Skull and Bones, America's most elite and elusive secret society - and it has become the unlikely...

WHITE HOUSE LETTERNude Wrestling? Good Practice for PoliticsBy ELISABETH BUMILLER ASHINGTONIt will be a field day for conspiracy theorists: President Bush and Senator John Kerry are not only graduates of Yale but also fellow members of the university's most elitist secret society, Skull and Bones. So if Mr. Kerry becomes the Democratic presidential nominee, the 2004 campaign will represent the first skull-to-skull match-up of Bonesmen in history.Does this mean anything at all? Well, aside from an opportunity to revisit all the weird, unsubstantiated but widely told stories about Skull and Bones initiation rites — like nude wrestling or having to...

The secret society that ties Bush and Kerry (Filed: 01/02/2004) Revelations that leading candidates for the US presidency were "Skull and Bones" members have provoked claims of elitism. Charles Laurence reports from New York The "tomb" stands dark and hulking at the heart of the Yale University campus, almost windowless, and shuttered and padlocked in the thick snow of winter storms. Yale's candidates for the White House pictured in their student days and the 'Skull and Bones' mascot Built to mimic a Greco-Egyptian temple, it is the headquarters of the Order of the Skull and Bones, America's most elite and...

October 24, 2003 Of 'Skulls and Bones': More secrets of the tomb - Native Americans groups fight to recover lost skull of Geronimo. BY NOAM RUDNICK An axe pried open the iron door of the tomb, and Pat[riarch] Bush entered and started to dig...Pat[riarch] James dug deep and pried out the trophy itself...I showered and hit the hay...a happy man...'' So recounts a document thought to be an internal record from the Skull and Bones Society. "Pat[riarch] Bush" is Prescott Bush, father of an American political dynasty. His "trophy" is the skull of Geronimo, the Native American spiritual and military...

Skull And Bones Oct. 5, 2003 There are secrets that George W. Bush guards at least as carefully as any entrusted to a president. He's forbidden to share these secrets even with the vice president -- secrets he has held ever since his days as an undergraduate at Yale. In his senior year, Mr. Bush - like his father and his grandfather - belonged to Skull and Bones, an elite secret society that includes some of the most powerful men of the 20th century. All Bonesmen, as they're called, are forbidden to reveal what goes on in their inner sanctum,...