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Bush’s giant Right Wing Noise Machine (RWNM) loves to preach about the Bush economic miracle. In fact, the RWNM’s current thinking is Bush doesn’t spend enough time talking about his economic triumphs. If only he did, then everyone would fall in line and believe in the great Bush economic miracle. There is one problem with this argument: it’s a lie. Any way you look at the Bush economy, it comes up short. Today, I want to compare Bush’s job creation record with other economic recoveries. As usual, Bush comes up way short. The national Bureau of Economic Research has identified...

Why does anybody support George w Bush as President? He is clearly the worst President I have ever seen -- a complete disaster. And before you say anything, I have been a registered Republican for 25 years.

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Click on above image to view the video footage. A whistleblower sent  PETA a CD-ROM showing Kappa Sigma fraternity members at the University of Missouri in Rolla torturing a box turtle by strapping explosives to his back and lighting them repeatedly. At one point in the video, frat members can be heard yelling, “He’s still alive!” What appears to be firecrackers and bottle rockets were plastered to the turtle’s shell and lit by screaming, cruel Kappa Sigma members. PETA wrote to Kappa Sigma headquarters only to be told that “appropriate disciplinary action has been taken to address the situation.”...

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'Pet' Raccoon Chews Infant's Face Report: Child Will Need Reconstructive Surgery DES MOINES, Iowa -- A pet raccoon attacked a 2-month-old baby in Des Moines early Wednesday morning. The baby's mother called police just before 4:30 a.m. to report that the family's raccoon was on top of the child, chewing on his face. A condition report has not been released, but a police report said an officer on the scene did not believe the injuries to Elijah Evans were life threatening. The same report said Evans would need major plastic surgery. The attack happened at 1416 19th St. The mother...

Msnbc reported within the last hour that the terrorist alert level may be raised to orange in response to increased terrorist activity

MADRID, Sept 10 (Reuters) - A judge investigating a ring of suspected Muslim militants in Spain has thrown out an appeal by the alleged head of the group after his lawyers demanded autopsies on all of the victims of the September 11 attacks. A court order obtained by Reuters included a list of demands by the lawyers of Imad Eddim Barakat Yarkas, alias Abu Dahdah, in an appeal against charges of involvement in the September 11 attacks. Dahdah is being held in a Madrid prison. The lawyers asked for evidence of the cause of the collapse of New York's World...

Airport 09/10/2002 Elizabeth HomanIdaho's NewsChannel 7 A passenger checking baggage accidentally fired a handgun at the Boise Airport early this morning. No one was injured. The passenger was checking baggage for a Southwest Airlines flight around 5:15 this morning. A Boise Airport spokesperson says that Richie Burrows declared his gun, and was showing the attendant that the chamber was clear. When he closed the slide, the weapon loaded and fired. The Airport spokesperson says the gun was pointed down and away from anyone at the ticket counter. The bullet hit the scales, and no one was injured. An Airport police...

Tolkien, Transformer of Culture By Colleen Carroll April 19, 2002 What Christians Can Learn from The Lord of the Rings For Christian artists, entertainers, and writers desperate to engage popular culture, the success of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is something of a curiosity. On the one hand, Tolkien's epic saga of life in mythical Middle Earth has set a new standard for multimedia secular success. The Rings series has sold more than 100 million books; spawned legions of devoted fan clubs, conferences, and festivals; and served as the forerunner for an entire genre of fantasy literature....

This thread has been locked, it will not receive new replies. Locked on 09/02/2002 1:46 AM Pacific by Admin Moderator, reason: Flame war BS!!! No flame war. Just people describing their reactions to this monstrosity. Allow me to point out that Catholic does NOT mean Christian. It means *community*, and there is NOTHING Christian about this attempt to duplicate the Temple of Solomen as any aerial view will show precisely, but without the mosques. However, outdoing the sizes of any other chuches in the US, surely sounds Islamic to me...not to mention the absolutely pagan symbology connected with every single...

The Elizabeth Smart Case posters on freerepublic.com have been shunted around from news to chat, to news again, and back to chat. This longtime lurker avidly reads the news and serious theories they post, but has had it to here with some of the idiotic comments.

I filed this under crime becasue it's criminal what the NYT does on it's pages......As THE GREATEST tabloid in the country, NYT is perfect.....as a source of unbiased news it has become a dismal failure.....and the saddest thing is they don't even realize it's happening......These pompus fools still actually belive they are the paper of record, not the paper of birdcages and puppy dogs, (who are slowly becoming the most prolific users......)Everytime I hear some news clown reference, "...the NYT said today..." I and the wide expanse of America turn the station......Yet these out of touch propagandists still kiss each...

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad checks 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have done time for assault 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit 14 have been arrested on drug related charges 8 have been arrested for shop lifting 21 are currently defendants in law suits 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Want to send a message to your future descendants that will be read 500 centuries later? A group headed by a French scientist, putting together a satellite-based time capsule, is in India seeking messages that will orbit Earth for 50,000 years and then return to the planet. The non-profit 'KEO' program, costing at least $50 million, is funded by more than two dozen mostly European firms, some of which have interests in the space industry. It has also been elected as UNESCO ( news - web sites)'s 'Project for the 21st century'. "It's a gift from...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUESDAY AUGUST 27, 2002 16:25:04 ET XXXXX MSNBC'S 'DONAHUE' HITS LOWEST NIELSEN RATING POSSIBLE Phil Donahue has plunged in total collapse on MSNBC with cable viewers, NIELSEN ratings show. DONAHUE has sunk to a basement rating of a .1, according to sources, the lowest possible rating's measure available! MORE Last Friday night, DONAHUE earned a .1 to CONNIE CHUNG's .6 on CNN and O'REILLY's 1.0 on FOX NEWS. Even more amazingly, MSNBC for the entire day average only a 0.2, and it was beaten by both CNN'S HEADLINE NEWS channel and CNBC that day. (FOX was...

Local news is saying.."very series" high rise fire in downtown chicago...parts of Michigan avenue have been closed.