Free Republic

ADDRESS AT A GATHERING OF AMERICANS IN LONDON, JULY 4, 1872 MR. CHAIRMAN AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,--I thank you for the compliment which has just been tendered me, and to show my appreciation of it I will not afflict you with many words. It is pleasant to celebrate in this peaceful way, upon this old mother soil, the anniversary of an experiment which was born of war with this same land so long ago, and wrought out to a successful issue by the devotion of our ancestors. It has taken nearly a hundred years to bring the English and Americans...

New Orleans radio system flooded FEMA gets Hurricane Katrina help from unlikely place [FCW.com, 08/29/05] BY Bob Brewin Published on Aug. 31, 2005 Operation of the New Orleans police radio system in the wake of Hurricane Katrina has been plagued not only by floodwaters but by a lack of natural gas to power generators. Not only that, Louisiana State Police turned away repair technicians when they attempted to reach the city, according to an on-scene report the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International relayed to Federal Computer Week. The report, contained in an e-mail Wednesday from Dominic Tusa, a communications...

Tigers, snowmobiles, Sudafed: There oughta (not) be a law Sunday, January 23, 2005 By Bill Winter Here's the best legal advice you'll get in 2005: Don't let your pet tiger drive a snowmobile across a not-quite-frozen lake and then buy three packages of Sudafed at a drugstore. If you do, you'll get into hot water. Which is defined as water that's at least 120 degrees. In Louisiana, anyway. If that doesn't make any sense, you haven't been following news reports about all the state laws that went into effect on Jan. 1. That's right. Laws regulating pet tigers, snowmobiles, cold...

    Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away   19:00 01 September 04     In February 2003, astronomers involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) pointed the massive radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at around 200 sections of the sky. The same telescope had previously detected unexplained radio signals at least twice from each of these regions, and the astronomers were trying to reconfirm the findings. The team has now finished analysing the data, and all the signals seem to have disappeared. Except one, which has got stronger. This radio signal, now seen on three separate occasions, is...

Welcome to Balloon World Thanks to an audio feed snafu on CNN at the end of Sen. Kerry's speech, in which the Democrat’s convention producer could be heard giving frantic directions to underlings, in order to assure that the American public had no doubts about the important “message” Democrats wanted to communicate to us, the pithy sound bite that will forever immortalize the 2004 Democrat National Convention/Presidential campaign rang out like the “shot heard ‘round the world” from a Boston suburb some 229 years earlier: “More balloons..... MORE BALLOONS!! MORE BALLOONS, DAMMIT!!! WHERE THE F*CK ARE THE BALLOONS?” While arguably...

Larry King Interviews Howard Dean LK: Good evening. Larry King here; tonite, we hear from Democrat presidential hopeful Howard Dean. Welcome to the show, Governor Dean. Dean: Thanks, Larry; nice to be here. LK: Governor, your critics think you don't have the foreign policy experience needed to be president in a post 9/11 world. What do you say to that? Dean: Well, Larry, I beg to differ..... LK: That's a pretty persuasive argument.... Dean: .... as I have extensive experience negotiating amicable solutions to difficult situations... LK: For instance? Dean: Well, Larry, I once negotiated a settlement between two classmates...

By Paul Recer AP Science Writer Wednesday, April 24, 2002; 4:21 PM WASHINGTON –– The universe is about 13 billion years old, slightly younger than previously believed, according to a study that measured the cooling of the embers in ancient dying stars.Experts said the finding gives "very comparable results" to an earlier study that used a different method to conclude that the universe burst into existence with the theoretical "Big Bang" between 13 and 14 billion years ago.Harvey B. Richer, an astronomer at the University of British Columbia, said the Hubble Space Telescope gathered images of the faintest dying...

News - January 3, 2001 Alciere had FBI, police on alert By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI Union Leader Staff   It wasn’t just freshman legislator Tom Alciere’s writings supporting the killing of police officers that first alarmed the Nashua community in the early 1990s and got him ousted from the Libertarian Party.   It also was his chilling espousal of violence against women written in letters to the editor of a local newspaper, according to police and a party leader.   "He took a domestic violence position several years ago where he said a woman needs to be dragged by the hair and either ...

State takes woman's license plates DMV director: Lawyer's 'H8DCYF' tags offensive Friday, November 10, 2000By STEVE VARNUMMonitor staff A Boscawen attorney has lost a year-long battle to keep her "H8DCYF" license plates. The plates were removed from Paula Werme's Ford Aerostar minivan in her driveway by a pair of Division of Motor Vehicles inspectors yesterday morning, a month after she had renewed her registration. Werme said she was preparing at about 9:45 a.m. for a court appearance when a state car drove up the driveway at her home on North Main Street. "I thought somebody was coming about the ...

Albert Gore, Jr: Unexamined Resume Fraud concealing Characterological Dysfunction? or, Is America really ready for Ensign Pulver1 as President? The official white house web site2 biography of Vice President Al Gore puts a gloss on Mr. Gore's seven years of non-political, post college, life to an extent that would get most people fired in the private sector, and many in government would face perjury charges if they signed employment applications as disingenuous as this biography: "...After graduation, he volunteered for enlistment in the U.S. Army and served in Viet Nam. Returning to civilian life, Vice President Gore became an investigative ...

] N.H. attorney general rules taping of clerk was OK By Alice Giordano, Globe Correspondent, 8/16/2000 CONCORD, N.H. - In a ruling some legal specialists believe could have an impact on the private use of secretly recorded conversations, the New Hampshire attorney general has ruled that a woman did not break any laws when she surreptitiously taped a court clerk. Cindy Fitzgerald recorded the conversation as part of her defense against the state's Division of Children, Youth, and Family, which has custody of her children. Fitzgerald's attorney, Paula Werme, provided her specific questions and encouraged Fitzgerald to tape a ...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- =============================== NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org =============================== For release: August 9, 2000 =============================== For additional information: George Getz, Press Secretary Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-Mail: pressreleases@hq.LP.org =============================== New Ohio state law requires five-day waiting period for buying beer (really!) WASHINGTON, DC -- A new law in Ohio that requires a five-day waiting period before buying beer -- yes, you read that correctly -- has Libertarians wondering: How Lowenbrau can politicians go? "This is the worst idea since Billy Beer," said Libertarian Party ...

I just received the following e-mail today, and it describes the experience of a friend who today tried to remail a package that she had RECEIVED FROM the post office. Editorial modifications I have made are denoted by brackets [...], e.g. clarifications or deletion of names, places, and other personal information, etc. Emphasis added in bold type. ========================================================== I went to the post office today to mail a box. I had received the stuff in the same box, and was basically forwarding it to [destination deleted]. I got to the post office, with the new address label tacked on over ...

N.H. towns begin tax revolt Thursday, 16 March 2000 13:58 (ET) CONCORD, N.H., March 16 (UPI) -- In a sweeping state-wide tax revolt, 14 towns in New Hampshire have refused to pay their share of a property tax to finance public education. They are now in violation of the law. The towns resisted a Wednesday deadline and instead put their checks in escrow, awaiting a hearing Thursday, March 23, on their suit challenging the constitutionality of the law. The sum being withheld is $14 million, a small portion of the $825 million the state plans to spend to fund its ...

NORFOLK, Va. -- One year ago, Brig. Gen. Bruce M. Lawlor was a small-town >Vermont lawyer whose duties in the national guard included hauling water to >livestock during summer droughts and rescuing farmers in winter ice storms. > >Last month, General Lawlor became the first commander of a sensitive new >military operation that would respond if the United States were struck by a >chemical, germ or nuclear attack. > >General Lawlor, a one-star Army general who had never served on active duty >until last year, was given a position just two links removed from President >Clinton in the chain of ...

BACKGROUND: News reports based on the FLT 990 FDR data included the observation that at the end of the first dive of the ill-fated plane, the elevators (control surfaces on the back of the horizontal stabilizers at the tail of the aircraft, which allow the pilots to control the pitch attidude of the plane — nose-up, nose-down, etc.) briefly moved such that the left one was going one way while the right was moving in the opposite direction (nonsymmetric position). It has been subsequently report by the media, quoting various gov't and industry "experts," that such a nonsymmetric deployment of ...

original article on first thread: =================================== PILOTS SHUT DOWN ENGINES AT END OF DIVE News/Current Events Breaking News News Keywords: FLIGHT 990 Source: CBS NEWS, NBC NEWS Published: 11/12/99 Author: self Posted on 11/12/1999 15:51:29 PST by Big Ezy According to news clues from the flight data recorder the Pilots of Flight 990 appear to have shut the engines down on purpose at the end of the dive. Also the Data Recorder shows that the plane reached speeds of over 600 mph and the passengers would have felt weightlessness for 20 plus seconds. In addition the engines were cut off ...

Whilst watching the network news this evening, I heard a report that should be noted as a "Moronic Moment" for intellectually-challenged network news folks. ABC was running a story late in the newscast about the future of "nanotechnology" — ultra-miniaturized computing devices, and the implications of such technology. With great solemnity, the reporter intoned: "Soon, we will be able to build computers systems capable of modeling the entire atmosphere of the Earth, allowing meteorologists to make perfect weather forecasts." (or words to that effect) The problem is that it is pure BS. As stated in James Gleick's "Chaos," the world's ...