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Just wanted to say that I've missed y'all these past few days. Wednesday day and night was frightening here in northern Alabama. I was blessed that all I lost was a refrigerator full of food and 4 days 6.5 hours without power. There are others that have lost so much, much more. My beloved Alabama has been torn apart. But people have been WONDERFUL!!!!! Grocery stores and gas stations were open ASAP; restaurants rather than having to throw out their food were giving it away; others were having ice trucked in from out of state and were giving it away;...

A Church I Never Knew About http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlfEdJNn15E

A friend of a friend has been missing since last Tuesday. Searchers with cadaver dogs searched the woods behind her home on Friday and Saturday with no results. She lives in Huntsville and is originally from Mississippi. Each link has a photo of her. If you should happen to see Patricia please phone Huntsville (Alabama) Police at 256-722-7100. The articles state that she took no personal items which may not be true. Thanks so much for your help! http://www.waaytv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13013852 http://www.whnt.com/news/whnt-huntsville-missing-woman-patricia-cribbs-081910,0,1542061.story P.S. If you should happen to phone the police about her please FReep mail me. Her family and friends are...

ROLL TIDE! Yahoo!!!!!

I don't want to tie up the hurricane thread with this vanity but does anyone know how to email or phone John McCain's upper campaign personnel? Hurricane Ike will affect the entire country in terms of fuel prices. McCain needs to go before the press NOW and announce that he WILL push through legislation authorizing new refineries NOT located in the GOM! (And pardon my language but to hell with the demonwits and the enviro wackos!) He needs to do it now and repeat it until Election Day. I will gladly write or phone him if someone can supply the...

Don't mean to jump the ping list for Caylee but I'm watching Nancy Grace on CNN and Casey Anthony has been led out of her parents home in handcuffs by police investigators.

I want to urge all my fellow FReepers to phone the White House comments line at 202-456-1111 and leave a message for President Bush urging him to call a special session of Congress and force them to vote on off shore and ANWR drilling. If the Dems vote it down then McCain needs to be all over the media speaking about this. I'm so sick of "Let Them Eat Cake" Pelousi. Congress needs to be reminded that they (still) work for us.

I've looked at the State of Georgia website and can't find this info. I know FReepers can help me. :^) I need to know how a person establishes residency in Georgia. Let me tell you my story. I'm trying to verify this for a relative of mine. This relative lives less than a mile from Georgia but has always been a resident of Tennesee (drivers license, mortgage, property taxes, etc). However they have a post office box just on the other side of the state line in Georgia. They've been told that because the post office box is located in...

I need a copy of SB777 with Schwartznegger's actual signature on it. This is the bill that makes it mandatory that homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender be taught in California public schools. I told my Mom about this yesterday and she doesn't believe that the government is making this mandatory and that Schwarznegger signed it into law. I need a copy with his signature on it (and even then she may not believe it!). Forget directing her to the internet. She wouldn't know how to use a computer (much less a cell phone) to save her life. Heck, I even need to...

What is a brokered convention? What causes it? Would it be a GOOD thing for the Republicans to have this year?

Is it possible to sue both President Bush and Congress over illegals? This is something I've been wondering about for a long, long time. I know there are FReepers who are legal and constitutional scholars and experts on this matter. Is it or would it be possible to get some sort of class action lawsuit going against President Bush and Congress to get them to inforce our immigration laws and to deport ALL illegals?

This link has some great political cartoons relating to Thanksgiving. Enjoy! http://cagle.com/news/Thanksgiving07/

With all the bad news coming out of California I thought a frivolous topic might be in order. What is your favorite or least favorite of the new television season? I have two shows that I look forward to each week: The Big Bang Theory (Mondays on CBS) and Samantha Who with Christina Applegate (Mondays on ABC) I have an extremely dry sense of humor and both of these shows just crack me up (especially Big Bang Theory).

I'm looking for a reputable pro-life group in the Huntsville, Alabama area to get involved with. Some background: I am former and reformed pro-choice, women's lib, anti-gun, and liberal. I'm a new Christian (almost 7 months!) and have seen the error of my former beliefs. I'm NOT a troll and have been a member of FR for at least 10 years now. I sincerely want to get involved in the pro-life movement in the Huntsville, Alabama area and am wanting recommendations and if possible phone numbers.

I'm curious as to what FReepers have to say on this topic. Did our (America) go downhill with the start of Abraham Lincoln being elected and the South loosing the Civil War?

In August of 2006, we warned our readership about the coming North American Union, a plan to merge Canada, Mexico and the US into a single economic and political entity a la the European Union. You can read our alert, "Another Back Door for Gun Control" here: http://www.jpfo.org/alert20060815.htm At that time, the planned NAU was (supposedly) still a theory, one new harebrained scheme among so many others proposed by the government elite safely ensconced in their ivory towers. Disturbingly, that no longer appears to be the case. According to a recent article in the New American ( http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4468.shtml or http://tinyurl.com/2vlzt3...

I bought a new laptop computer (Compaq) yesterday. Finally got tired of my Dell crashing and living in Dell Hell. Anyway, my new system has Vista as the operating system and it comes with a firewall. My question is do I still need to go out and buy a better firewall (like Panda)? Thanks in advance for the help!

Congress Shafts Second Amendment ... Again

http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=33063 Very interesting article about a Jew who became a Muslim and then left the Muslim faith.

I've discovered a "missing link" in Alabama's state law regarding estates. It turns out that step families or adults who live together in a home that only one of the adults own have no estate rights should one of the adults die. I spoke to the my local state legislative office last Fall (prior to the elections) and they were surprised that this loophole exists. Here is the body of the letter that I emailed to them explaining my particular situation: My elderly mother lives in my late Stepfather’s house. (It is a large 3 bedroom, 2 bath home and...