Posted on 02/15/2010 2:42:02 AM PST by tlb
Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) -- Two members of the U.S. Olympic delegation -- both gold medalists from previous Olympics -- suffered minor injuries Sunday in an accident as they were traveling in Vice President Joe Biden's motorcade, the White House said.
Peggy Fleming and Vonetta Flowers were taken to a hospital "as a precaution" after a van in the motorcade was involved in a minor accident, according to Biden spokesman Jay Carney. Both were later released from the hospital.
Neither Biden nor anyone else in the motorcade was involved in the incident, Carney said.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
And Joe's people say Joe isn't at fault. Again. So that's ok.
Joe Biden: The Vice President that has a hard time spelling 7/11.
The thing is Peggy belongs there and USA pols should either stay away or walk like everyone else. What a maroon!
You get the feeling that Biden’s team isn’t the cream of the crop?
Who the heck is driving these cars, Dennis the Menace??
Didn’t Biden’s motorcade kill someone recently?
[Remember this oldie?]
HILLARY CLINTON OK AFTER TRYING TO BYPASS A SECURITY AIRPORT ROADBLOCKOct 30, 2001 ...
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillaryR.htm
That officer was taken to Saint Agnes Hospital in White Plains, ... Hillary Clinton was a passenger inside the car that injured a police officer at ... New York Senator Hillary Clinton’s van after it blew past an airport ...
Speaking of Hillary:
Hillary Says Iran turning into a dictatorship?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451568/posts
[It always essentially was. She’s just beginning to realize it.]
Other news:
‘There has been no global warming for 15 years’...
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/158214
More about global warming and all kinds of news coming [in response to this post].
[Uups. The above was supposed to be a ping.]
[If anyone wants to be on ping list of this disorganized nut who is currently suffering from caffien withdrawl, please let me know.]
Remember this oldie?]
HILLARY CLINTON OK AFTER TRYING TO BYPASS A SECURITY AIRPORT ROADBLOCKOct 30, 2001 ...
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillaryR.htm
That officer was taken to Saint Agnes Hospital in White Plains, ... Hillary Clinton was a passenger inside the car that injured a police officer at ... New York Senator Hillary Clinton’s van after it blew past an airport ...
Speaking of Hillary:
Hillary Says Iran turning into a dictatorship?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451568/posts
[It always essentially was. She’s just beginning to realize it.]
Other news:
‘There has been no global warming for 15 years’...
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/158214
More about global warming and all kinds of news coming [in response to this post].
ROFL....Who’s picking the drivers? Is Obammy trying to tell Joe something?
[In response to this post, advice for newbies.]
What to say to a ‘warmer’ (ClimateGate and its baby gates from the IPCC et al.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451377/posts
Ann Coulter Refers to Biden as Drunken Irishman Twice in Debate Over Biden Attempt to Counter Cheney
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451573/posts
Audio: Very Frustrated Dem Senator Wants Obama to Bypass the Legislative Process on Healthcare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451578/posts
cripplecreek: It was “Debbie Stabenow”
FormerACLUmember: Debbie Stabenow (D, North Korea)
[Any relationship to Kim Jung Mentally Il?]
Gore’s Profits Of Doom
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377902/posts
JD Hayworth Launches $100,000 Money Bomb for Monday, Feb. 15 (Official Site is up)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451405/posts
THE GREAT CLIMATE CHANGE RETREAT! [Big Letters in Drudge]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row
-admits-data-organised.html
‘There has been no global warming for 15 years’...
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/158214
BATTLE OF THE VEEPS: Cheney says Biden WRONG that new attack unlikely...
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN1416125820100214
Biden: Iraq war WASN’T worth ‘horrible price’...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100214/D9DRV98G1.html
[Nice way to talk about a new ally. Way to buck up the troops too. Presidential diplomacy.]
Flashback: Biden ‘02 On Saddam: We Have To ‘Eliminate The Threat’...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/02/14/flashback_biden_2002_on_saddam_we_have_to_eliminate_the_threat.html
US rockets slam into Afghan home, killing 12 ...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100214/D9DS7H982.html
[Air raiding villages and targeting civilians? Where are the anti-war congress critters?]
Spanish intelligence probing debt ‘attacks’...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE61D04V20100214?type=usDollarRpt
JustPiper [in Threat Matrix] says: A MUST READ!
“I am a veteran. I am homeland security.”
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5498/pub_detail.asp
‘Muslim Mafia’ suit dismissed [CAIR]
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125101
Judge’s CAIR ruling declared victory for 1st Amendment over Saudi money
[I’d rather read worldnetdaily than those who have trouble spelling ‘net’.]
Obama sending light attack aircraft to Lebanon/Hezbollah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2451005/posts
Lebanon doesn’t need weapons to defend itself against Syria. Lebanon and Syria have been on good terms ... [snip]
Obama’s Move To End Constellation Prompts Industrial Base Questions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451011/posts
Israeli legal group sues North Korea over 1972 terror attack
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451010/posts
Chinese Video Takes Aim at Online Censorship (Battle against Harmony Monster?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451006/posts
Declining U.S. Navy vs. Chinese challenge
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=124930
Fleet’s ‘much-diminshed’ status creates door of vulnerability to other powers
Drudge headline: A TASTE OF WAR...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/world/asia/14marja.html?hp
Watch MSNBC’s hosts duel during angry tirade
Joe Scarborough; ‘I’m going to be interviewing Marc by myself’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=124956
Obama budget: Nearly $4 billion to ACORN, radical groups
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125079
‘Nearly impossible to track it because HUD doesn’t track all the money’
Ax this hack [NY Post]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451019/posts
... outrageous accusation by John Brennan, President Obama’s top anti-terrorism advisor, that his critics “only serve the goals of al Qaeda.” Sen. Christopher Bond (R-Mo.), vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said Brennan “needs to go” because he’s no longer “credible” on security matters. [snip]
Al Gore: “He betrayed this country! He played on our fears!”
Obama himself: “Air raiding villages and bombing civiliazns.”
Reid: “This war is lost.”
John Brennan did us a favor by cross-verifying that it’s undeniable how much HIS side “served the goals of al Qaeda”.
Republican criticism of Obama is nothing compared to democrat rantings against the man whose billboard asks: “Miss me yet?”
[Kicking the Dead Horse]
Elizabeth Edwards Sent Disturbing Voicemails to John Edwards Aide Andrew Young’s Wife
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451016/posts
Sperm Wars
[Please do not forward to Bill Clinton until he’s recovered]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2451018/posts
Handheld Scanner Can Copy Car Keys
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2450897/posts
new handheld device that electronically maps the inside of car locks and then provides the key code within seconds
Sloppy Paper Keeping on the Global-Warming Hockey Stick?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450905/posts
Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.
Michelle Obama Declares War on Obesity Which She Calls a National Security Threat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450767/posts
COLLAPSE OF THE EURO IS ‘INEVITABLE’...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3cfeab9e-1813-11df-91d2-00144feab49a.html
http://www.infowars.com/collapse-of-the-euro-is-inevitable
Credit Suisse Declares the U.S. a Riskier Investment Than Indonesia
http://www.infowars.com/credit-suisse-declares-the-u-s-a-riskier-investment-than-indonesia
10,000 TSA staff to get secret intel [Infowars headline which I won’t link to.]
[I’m glad, unless they are given intel that they don’t need to see. Helps you profile.]
UN climate panel admits Dutch sea level flaw...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61C1V420100213
During the Olympics, The Feds Will Be Reading Your Tweets – And the Blotter
DHS Is Monitoring Social Media and Web Sites for Terror and Disaster Info
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/olympics-feds-reading-tweets/story?id=9825070
Facing Toughest Re-Election Bid, McCain Moves Right on Several Issues
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450583/posts
The Obots Have Found Me [Certifigate activist FReeper ‘found’]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450597/posts
Dianne Feinstein Caught on Tape Looking at Notes Scrawled in Palm of Hand During Televised Debate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450488/posts
In California, Sen. Boxer Has a Fight on Her Hands
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450599/posts
Signs of “Snow-Munity”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450516/posts
Obama’s Own Begin to Turn on Him
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2450607/posts
American Nationals Face Worldwide Threat From Terrorists: US (Thanks Obama!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450492/posts
Durbin: DC residents panic as if snowstorm is ‘nuclear attack’...
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/80925-durbin-dc-residents-panic-as-if-snow-is-a-nuclear-attack
Rare snowflakes start falling from Miss. to Fla....
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DQP5NG0&show_article=1
Utah delivers vote of no confidence for ‘climate alarmists’...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/12/utah-climate-alarmists
Remember the Trillion Dollar Scandal? [Escalante Land Grab]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2450392/posts?page=88#88
[also helps to remember key words: Lippo “Judicial Watch”]
Disappointing McCain push to ban supplements & herbs - Patriotic ...
http://www.resistnet.com/profiles/blogs/disappointing-mccain-push-to
John McCain funded by Soros since 2001
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1968902/posts
FReeper B-Cause compares the freedom school kids had in the 50s with Today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2450280/posts?page=15#15
[He was an eye witness to what freedom was really like.]
Obama to announce nuke plant loan [AP]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450323/posts
[Trying to bribe Southern Republicans. Nancy Ghrahamnesty, perhaps?]
RUSH IN A HURRY — Flashback: Liberals Said NO Snow Proved Global Warming
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2450319/posts?page=5
[Transcripts in posts following article.]
Also included: “Senator Rockefeller said, ‘Obama’s beginning to not be believable to me.’
Garrett’s roofing fire admission (Australian governments ‘environmental’ ‘stimulus’ killing people)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2450326/posts?page=1
California Teachers Union Says Newly-Empowered Parents = “Mob Rule”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450280/posts
The Enemies Within Our Education system
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2450280/posts?page=17#17
King Obama Saturday NYT. Drudge Report
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2450274/posts
Obama to ‘use executive powers to advance energy, environmental and other policy priorities’
“Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda’ cool’.” [Paul Begala during Clinton administration.]
I have been informed that the McCain/Hayworth Primary will be on Aug 24. We have time to nail that turkey to the wall!
2003/03/19 McCain joins Democrats to vote against drilling in ANWR
[Yeah, he was some ‘visionary’.]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2450221/posts?page=149#149
ATTENTION HAYWORTH SUPPORTERS: If you care about defeating McCain, I urge you to visit the above link. It’s a very easy
load and worth it!
http://www.hotr.us/mccain/mccainagain.html is the root sight for the above link. The root site is currently being added
to.
Disappointing McCain push to ban supplements & herbs - Patriotic ...
http://www.resistnet.com/profiles/blogs/disappointing-mccain-push-to
Crap-and-tax will soon be dead and here’s why:
Scientists Considered Pouring Soot Over the Arctic in the 1970s to [prevent manmade ice age]
http://info-wars.org/2009/12/19/scientists-considered-pouring-soot-over-the-arctic-in-the-1970s-to-help-melt-the-ice-%E2%
80%93-in-order-to-prevent-another-ice-age
Unpaid leave at USA Today (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450206/posts
“USA Today employees will be required to take one week of unpaid leave between now and July.”
Americans still need to know the whole truth about ACORN and Obama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2450270/posts?page=1
Sen. McCain faces toughest re-election challenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2450221/posts?page=7
Only 40 percent of Arizonans have a favorable view of McCain’s job performance.
No Snow? Global Warming! Too Much Snow? Global Warming!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2450188/posts?page=1
U.S. May Abandon Civilian Trial For 9/11 Suspect [Obama Reversal? Bush Vindicated!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/pings?tab=current
Advice for FR newbies:
If you are a newbie, I recommend copy-pasting this post to notepad. [It helps to remove word wrap {in ‘format’} before copy-pasting FROM notepad.]
And if you remember just one thing from this post, please remember this — get comfortable with ‘advanced google’.
You need this bookmarked / in favorites / whatever:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
The easier your access to advanced google, the better. Why? Narrowed searches. A single key word is rarely even close to cutting it. You normally need to limit your search to three or more key words. But there’s more to a narrowed search.
Sometimes, you need to find pre-dated information. There are different ways to do it. I myself normally enter years in the “not this” box. But the wording in advanced google for that box is this:
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But don’t show pages that have...
any of these unwanted words: [box for you type in here]
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I’ll type 2010 2009 [etc.] in the “not this” to find predated information. However many years back I want to go to see how news was covered prior to the latest spin.
You might also see a lot of copy-paste rip-offs [some might call them clones], so pick out an odd key word from the ‘copy paste’. For example, I was trying to learn about the safe schools czar, and the leftwing loonies kept posting “loyal American” in their cloned defense. So I entered in the ‘not this’ box: “loyal”.
Another trick is what I think of as “leapfrog research”. First I might enter a word and ‘wacko’. Or if I’m suspcious of a website, I might add ‘sux’ or ‘sucks’ to see what people are griping about. Then, after getting basic information, I delete the “leapfrog” word and enter a specific word, such as a date, a full name, a title with the name, etc.
You can do a vanity search with google too. Type in your screen name along with freerepublic.com. You can vanity search anyone, not just yourself. You can also vanity search our forum in google [by adding the word, “freerepublic.com”] which helps you locate things in ways that the forum’s search engine might not offer. [I like to help the FR’s google engine positioning anyway.]
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Profile and bookmarks
Make use of your profile and bookmarks. Even if you are the only one reading it, it can help you remember things. [Some people simply bookmark interesting reads as they go, and when their bookmark “link lists” are too long, they copy-paste them onto a notepad and purge the public bookmarks.]
You can customize your bookmarks. It would not hurt to add a [tag] to the headline for example, or to change the headline entirely if you want a different take on the article. Many professional headlines are worthless and confusing [especially the most clever and catchy ones]. You can also customize the website address. In fact, it takes a little work, but if you clear out everything in an FR bookmark, you can bookmark any web address on the internet. You can also bookmark individual posts. [Half the time, someone’s post is more valuable than the article.] Here is what I mean:
Escalante Land Grab
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2450392/posts?page=88#88
That post is about a Clinton land grab via executive order. Obama is planning on seizing more power through executive orders of his own [what the article is about]. Some might consider bookmarking the article and post seperately.
Note the end of the address: ?page=88#88. That’s the ‘magic formula’ for an address of a post. You can find it if you right click at the right spot on a post. Just after the date and time, you will see “88 of 88”. That’s the spot.
You can edit your profile in “account” [at the top menu]. You can also edit your bookmarks [or links] from there. Your profile won’t look “too hot” until you’ve learned basic HTML. But even a trashy or short profile is better than nothing. I’m like many — I don’t talk much about myself in my profile. I use it to talk about more important things. ETL’s profile is a masterpiece. I link to it sometimes:
Obama Opposition Researcher, ETL, still hard at work:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl
[Almost anything you’d want to know.]
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Your Focus
You will find people value you more if you become a “go to” person on a given issue, a specialty, especially if you have personal life experience in that issue. [One of mine was training and supporting new-hires in fast food.] Being broad, general interest is fine too. We always need that. A combination of the two might be ideal — half specialty and half broad. Also, you might enjoy weird news. Why not collect link lists of weird news? We never laugh enough. Or you might collect thoughtful posts. People love being quoted. It lets people know they are appreciated.
Copying website addresses. The trick is to right click on the link. Then you can copy/paste the address without leaving the page you are currently on.
Flash drive: Nothing beats a flash drive for backup memory. It also helps you organise your files. Just be careful about what you delete. If you are well off, heck, why delete anything? Just bury it in junk folders.
Ping lists. It’s one thing to invite someone to a ping list. Take it from me: don’t ‘slam’ them into a ping list uninvited. For every one who complains, five are grumbling behind your back. If you see a good pinger, consider joining the list. Just tell them. Most of us pingers can’t get long enough lists. If you start a ping list, please don’t make it “high volume”. With few exceptions, one ping a day is plenty. A once-a-week ping might even be more popular. You can always post links as a follow-up to your ping.
FReeper Relations: Keep a list of screen names, especially of people FRiendly to you, and try to write down what their realm of knowledge is, what they are interested in, and what their sense of humor is like. [I wish I had done more of that all these years.] If you like someone’s post and that person hasn’t had several responses, let him/her know. All of this is well worth the time! We are, more than anything else, a human resource. On the other hand, if you think something is wrong [such as something that seems blatantly racist], I recommend private messaging a third party and ask what that person thinks [not public posting — but ‘freep mail]. As a newbie, you might not be familiar with taunts on leftists. It can be very complicated. Curmudgeon that I am, I’ve gotten into hundreds of stupid sqaubbles over nothing, sometimes simply due to sloppy reading on my part. [I need coffee when I get up but never wait for it.] Don’t confront people over perceived racism [or other harsh accusations] for your first half year or so.
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Vanities.
If you hear something breaking from an obscure news source [especially you-tube], or better yet — if you have access to an original source, then you should seriously consider posting a vanity. Don’t be put off by the word, ‘vanity’. It’s a word purposefully designed to discourage worthless threads [most vanities truly are vanity].
There are different categories of ‘vanity’.
1. Scoops or original sources — priceless.
2. Link lists — very handy. [Check out backhoe sometime.]
3. Unique observations or great humor.
4. Genuine vanity.
Unfortunately, most vanities truly are ‘vanity’. They are flops and get you nothing but grief. It’s normally someone who thinks he or she has a unique observation. Guess what? It might not be. But hey, maybe it is.
If you have a unique observation and the nerve to go for it, I recommend four things:
1. Try a google first [adding “freerepublic.com”]. See if someone had already written something along the same lines.
2. Be absolutely certain to add [Vanity] to your headline or people will be ticked off royally.
3. If it is fake news [a prank-thread], you are really asking for it. I wouldn’t advise it. Only a precious few have managed to get away with prank threads for any length of time.
4. If I were a newbie right now, I wouldn’t make more than one vanity a week for every three months I’ve been around [unless I had a hot exclusive source].
5. Write on notepad [or equivalent] and then Control + A to copy-paste. Things go wrong. Sometimes an entire thread gets yanked when only one sentence needs to be deleted or modified.
Chit-chat. Some chat belongs in private messaging [freep-mail]. [I need to follow that advice more myself.]
Jim Robinson’s vision was for our public posts to echo through eternity, to be prose and revelations that historians study thousands of years from now. It’s good to stop and ponder on the gravity of what you write here [unless it’s funny as heck]. Imagine this: your great grandchild might be reading your posts!
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HTML
HTML is tricky. You already have automatic HTML in this great forum to help you with line breaks for new paragraphs, and any complete website address is automatically linked if you are posting a response to an article. But if you enter any HTML code, you need to do those things manually. Not only that, but people like to see the address anyway before clicking. One reason is that there are certain websites that lag a computer. Or they don’t think some sites are credible [such as people who have trouble spelling ‘net’ correctly].
To learn HTML, maybe this will help:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1464688/posts?page=13#13
Isn’t this like the 4th time Bidens motorcade has been in an accident?
Fourth accident; one had a fatality.
"Hey boss... maybe we better slow down. Hey boss... maybe we ought to look out for other traffic. Hey boss... we're gonna get another person killed..."
Mr. niteowl77
OMG...They let Biden drive?
Tanya lover..... Tanya lover!!
Tax payers are carting around these people why?
It’s safer to go hunting with Dick Cheney than riding with Joe Biden.
I seriously think Biden’s team is made up of all the staff nobody else likes or wants to work with.
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