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Excerpt: SEOUL - South Korean police said Friday they have arrested members of a major drug-trafficking ring with suspected links to Afghanistan's Taleban insurgents. ‘Police have rounded up a drug-trafficking ring involving Afghans andPakistanis who are suspected of being linked with the Taleban,’ a National Police Agency spokesman told AFP. ‘They are suspected to trying to smuggle raw materials for heroin production into Afghanistan,’ he said. Police said two Afghans, three Pakistanis and four Koreans tried to use South Korea as a shipping point for several tons of acetic anhydride destined for southern Afghanistan. The chemical is heated with morphine,...

On Red-Eye just now Greg Gutfield did his Greg-A-Logue which was actually REALLY good. He compared the left to a crazy ex-girlfriend that Obama is now dumping. He said the left is cutting up Obama's underwear. He also said it's funny that if you're a liberal and want to get elected you have to fun from your beliefs. Then he said Obama was dropping Wesley Clark like a "Bug Infested Potato" Does Clark still work for Fox or did they drop him?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA-nOeLSM7E Television's Vietnam: the Impact of Media 1 of 6 Charlton Heston Narrates

NEW DELHI: It's a simple act, yet most of us neglect it. We tend to take it lightly, sometimes dismissing it as unnecessary, little realising its importance. Yet, grandma’s advice about washing hands still holds true. Every time we scrub our hands clean, killer germs get washed away. Though various studies have established that washing hands with soap reduces the risk of normal diarrhoea by nearly half and life-threatening diarrhoea by more than half, very few people take this seriously. In fact, a study conducted in West Bengal and Tripura last year found that only 49% washed their hands after...

If anybody knows how to post pictures, can they go to that site that shall remain nameless and post them here so that we can have a caption contest? It's Obama and the family at a parade. I wonder what joy those two little girls or their parents can possibly feel at a July 4th parade.

Last night, WBZ-TV hosted the annual Boston Pops 4th of July Concert in Boston. Whether through sheer stupidity or through dislike of country, they chose as host a amazing doofus who had recently become a US citizen. His comments to the audience were astonishing: "I'm an American citizen now so if you give me any crap, I can shoot you back." "So here again is the good-looking and good-smelling Keith Lockhart." There were more but I did not write them down. WTF is wrong with one of the country's biggest TV stations (part of CBS, BTW) that they would chose...

The 4TH OF JULY Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDIGO!!! Indigo and his Mother, AnnaZ at the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas (for the FRiva conference, August 2002) Indigo and his older brother Hamlet

A Wax Figure of Thomas Jefferson at Tussad's Wax Museum. Very lifelike.

Actor Paul Hogan, star of the Crocodile Dundee films, has challenged Australian tax investigators to "come and get me" in the United States following reports he is under investigation. Speaking outside his mansion in Santa Barbara California, the 68-year-old said: "They should build a statue of me up there at the tax office." "Come and get me," Hogan said with a grin, in an obscenity-laced statement addressed to the Australian Taxation Office.

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Maybe they should change it from "Samanatha Who" to "Whodunnit." Actress Christina Applegate's on-again/off-again boyfriend, Lee Grivas, was found dead at his apartment on July 1 by a neighbor. No autopsy has been conducted, but so far there are no signs of foul play. The National Enquirer broke the story with a source who says Grivas may have died of a drug overdose. "Applegate and Grivas, a 26-year-old skateboarder and photographer, had a rocky on-again, off-again relationship due to his continual battle with drugs and alcohol," according to the Enquirer. "But the couple had decided to give it one last...

This audio was played this morning on WMAL's "Grandy & Andy Morning Show" and I was laughing so hard I almost fell over. You will totally enjoy this. Here's the YouTube blurb: "This was sent to me by a friend, its legit... following is the story from him. Okay guys here is the info on this voicemail. One of my friend's from work and her friend were out one night in the SF Marina district and were hanging outside of the bars trying to find a cab. One of the girl's, Olga ends up meeting this guy Dmitri and they...

Texas Archaeological Dig Challenges Assumptions about First Americans Ancient stone artifacts reveal the day-to-day lives of Clovis people while offering tantalizing clues of an even earlier culture By Elizabeth Lunday Excavations at the Gault site in central Texas. FLORENCE, TEX.—"Look at that—isn't it gorgeous?" Sandy Peck asks as she rinses dirt from a flaked stone about the length and width of a pinky finger. Peck runs a hose over soil on a fine-mesh screen, prodding at stubborn clods of clay with a muddy glove. "Look, there's another one." Peck, sorting soil that had been disturbed by a recent thunderstorm, is...

Cave Men Loved to Sing Heather Whipps Special to LiveScience LiveScience.com Thu Jul 3, 1:01 AM ET Ancient hunters painted the sections of their cave dwellings where singing, humming and music sounded best, a new study suggests. Analyzing the famous, ochre-splashed cave walls of France, the most densely painted areas were also those with the best acoustics, the scientists found. Humming into some bends in the wall even produced sounds mimicking the animals painted there. The Upper Paleolithic people responsible for the paintings had likely fine-tuned their hearing to recognize the sound qualities in certain parts of the cave and...

-Rod's wife, Cynthia, has been shacked up with rocker Lenny Kravitz in Paris. The couple's two daughters — 3-year-old Natasha and 2-month-old Ella — remained in Miami, sources said. The stunning news emerged a day after revelations that Alex Rodriguez has been paying late-night visits to Madonna's Upper West Side apartment. The game of musical celebrity beds has effectively ended the randy Rodriguez's already-shaky marriage, even though divorce papers have not been filed, sources said. Cynthia Rodriguez, 34, has been in Paris for at least the past four days visiting Grammy-winner Kravitz. C-Rod was seen outside the 44-year-old Kravitz's pad...

“Transformers” star realizes it isn’t 1993 and dating Green won’t help her career. Poor Brian Austin Green. His career has been dead since Clinton's first term, his hip-hop cred is a few notches below Vanilla Ice's, and lately he's been getting no love from the chicas. Megan Fox, recently seen in the Transformers movie and as Faith Ford's daughter in ABC snorefest Hope and Faith, kicked Green to the well-manicured Hollywood curb for an all too familiar reason. She was reluctant to get married.

My wife mentioned the other day she heard some Obama supporter state that since the military is so thin that a President Obama will have to bring back the draft. Did anyone else hear this? Can anyone supply a link to either a transcript or video of this? Thank you for your help.

Just for purposes of curiosity: Do you plan to travel for the July 4th weekend? and why or wny not? Pesonally, i wasn't planning on it, but that's par for the course. It's been years and years since i sought to go anywhere but to the local fireworks celebration, and I think this has saved me much grief. But, if I were one to go to big amusement parks, or going to visit relatives, I still would likely not go this year, not because of panic, or being so short of funds that I could not literally buy the gas...

* MISTRESS: I GOT HIRED JUST FOR SEX If Christie Brinkley wanted to utterly humiliate her two-timing husband, she sure as hell got her wish yesterday. In a gasp-inducing first day of their divorce trial, the supermodel's lawyers exposed her wayward husband, Peter Cook, as a sex-crazed, porn-obsessed pervert who hired an 18-year-old girl at his architectural firm just to get her into bed. The normally staid Suffolk County courthouse in Central Islip turned into an adults-only peep show when the 49-year-old cad admitted under oath that he habitually ogles online pornography, (gratifies himself) in front of strangers via a...

From flickr, via...THE DEVIL. Either that, or it's from a Google cafeteria in New York. Apparently they serve Krispy Kreme bacon cheeseburgers, a.k.a Luther Burgers.

Hey anyone catch Lars Larson show being televised on CSPAN and do you know if there is a repeat scheduled. We missed it and really wanted to enjoy watching one of our local/state conservatives on national tv.

Where’s the "First"? McCain appears before the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, as reported in Politico: McCain, speaking first, promised the approximately 700 attendees that resurrecting the bipartisan immigration bill he helped shape last year would be at the forefront of his agenda as president. "It would be my top priority yesterday, today and tomorrow," McCain said in response to a question about whether he would pursue a comprehensive approach beyond his campaign promise to secure the border in his first 100 days in office. Seeking to win some points for his initial support for a comprehensive...

I offer here a list of spots you mught use to arm yourself and your family against current economic pressures. Please feel free. I don't work for any of these places. I just think things may tighten up before they loosen up, and would like to have a discussion aimed at helping people out.

AMERICAN actress Rose McGowan is to star in a new movie adaptation of comicbook warrior Red Sonja - the so-called 'She-Devil with a sword' - to be produced by her fiance Robert Rodriguez and released in 2010.

　　　　　　 　　　　World Journal, Posted: Jun 30, 2008 　　　　 　　　　BEIJING – One person was killed, 150 injured and 200 arrested when the Guizhou Province government cracked down on rioters in Weng’an County June 28, the World Journal reports. Over 500 high school students and local people started the insurrection because a 16-year-old girl had been raped and killed, and local government and police turned a blind eye on it. According to the World Journal, it all began when the victim refused to help one of her female classmates cheat on a test. Later, the girl was raped and killed by three...

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Why was Wesley Clark shuffled off?

"No beauty products, No sissy male models, No wimpy articles - Just pure raw masculine information and ideas for real men"

FreeRepublic members say goodbye to the Clinton's at the White House on the evening of January 19, 2001. Bill Clinton. We have you surrounded. Drop the cigar. Step away from the intern. And come out with your pants up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Z2igtHf6A

Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, has released his tax returns for the past two years, including details about the money he donated to charitable causes. In 2007, the Arizona senator reported $405,409 in total income and contributed $105,467, or 26 percent of his total income, to charity. In 2006, Mr. McCain said he had $358,414 in total income and donated $64,695, or 18 percent of his total income, to charity. The tax returns were filed solely by Mr. McCain. His wife, Cindy McCain, an heir to a beer distribution company in Phoenix who has reported wealth of $100-million,...

NORWALK - A 74-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Sunday after crashing her Cadillac through the front window of a liquor store, authorities said. Lynne Rice crashed her 1988 Cadillac into the front window of Joe's Food Mart, 10641 E. Imperial Highway, at 6:10 p.m., causing about $8,000 in damages, said Lt. Jenny Ha of the Norwalk Sheriff's Station. The crash apparently didn't slow her down. After plowing half-way through the store, Rice got out of the car, walked over to the cooler and pulled out a six pack of Budweiser, said the store owner,...

Dead Moose -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2008-05-08, 10:33AM AKDT I have a dead moose free for the taking. It died yesterday, apparently of natural causes. I called Fish & Game to come and get it. Apparently, moose are a natural resource and belong to everybody, until they die, then they belong to whoevers property they die on. So, according to Fish & Game, the moose now belongs to me. Sweet!! So, if you want a free moose, please come and get it before the bears do. You could use it for dog food, or stuff it and put it your front yard,...

What does the 4th of July mean to you? Over the time I have been aware of who we are as a nation I have been asked from time to time just what it means to celebrate the 4th of July. It’s not just the mantra of the birth of a new nation. It’s not the just another weekend to get drunk, party, BBQ, and take advantage of the time off. It has to have a deeper meaning, one that resonates from the past and looks to the future.For me, there was an awareness at the age of 8 about...

The super sweet and humble Megan Fox knows she’s the star of ‘Transformers 2′ and ain’t letting no hoes take away her spotlight. Star Magazine reports that she has banned producers from casting other attractive brunette actresses in the sequel. A spy says, Megan is definitely the star of the sequel, and she wants to keep it that way. It’s fine with her if there are hot blondes in the film, but she’s made it clear that she doesn’t want any brunettes.

Who else is better qualified to negotiate a truce between Bill and Obama? And between Hillary's holdouts and Barack's backers, the Sunni and the Shia, Madonna and Guy Ritchie?

Before the split. Christie Brinkley's lawyers may have one more weapon in their attempt to paint her wayward hubby as a callous cad - a married, 31-year-old fitness model with whom he had a relationship and then dumped, leaving her marriage in tatters........Cook met and pursued Carri Lyn Ciamarra, Westchester County, in early 2007, while she was married....... she was unable to keep the relationship from her spouse, and eventually left him for Cook. But the move apparently was a turnoff for Cook. He got cold feet and sent Ciamarra packing in August 2007, sources said. "She was devastated,"...

I don`t choose which news program to watch based on the attractiveness of the news anchor. But it`s fun to contemplate who are the most attractive female anchors, here`s my take on the matter: AMY ROBACH Amy is an anchor and correspondent at NBC. Amy may be my favorite because we both suffer from Coulrophobia, an irrational fear of clowns. MIKA BRZEZINSKI Mika is a television news journalist at MSNBE Mika has an impeccable pedigree (daughter of former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and sculptor Emilie Anna Benes) and beauty queen looks. Mika is beautiful and intelligent, she always interviews...

LinkPretty song. Siuil a run means walk my love. The lady's name is Orla Fallon the language is Gaelic.

Obama unveils new campaign bus. Sen. Barack Obama surprised many political observers today by turning on his anti-war supporters — most notably MoveOn.org. As has been noted throughout the conservative blogosphere, this is just the latest incident of long-time Obama backers being thrown under the bus. But so strong a reversal would not have been possible without the Obama campaign bus unveiled last weekend. Obama's Electoral Assault Vehicle (EAV) marks an unprecedented advance in presidential campaign transportation. While his detractors call it overkill, the campaign insisted upon its necessity. "The old bus was sufficient for the occasional primary bump in...

As one of the 200 or so Hispanic Republicans who attended the Hispanic Voices Reception for McCain at the Drake Hotel recently, I need to set the record straight on some of Rosanna Pulido's misguided statements to the media and on various blogs. It is clear she heard what she wanted to hear and saw what she wanted to see -- and not what was actually said or done. To the AP, she says: "He's one John McCain in front of white Republicans. And he's a different John McCain in front of Hispanics." McCain said nothing to this group of...

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Four wonderful years with FR. Tomorrow. Often chided, regularly reprimanded. Never banned. Happy to be a part of this wonderful place. Let's fulfill the upcoming FReepathon in record time. This year is crucial, as you all well know.

Caroline Kennedy was the inspiration for his song "Sweet Caroline". I guess many people may know this but it was a surprise to me. Here is a link to the story from 2007 on USA todayLink Link to song on YouTube....Sweet Caroline

Ferocious attack kitten is available for adoption to any home willing to accept him. This destructive kitty has been trained as a proud warrior and will fiercely defend your house, even against you. Well-trained since 10-weeks of age to attack anything in his presence, he will protect your family from evil things, including the following: * insects * other trained attack kittens * babies * toilet paper * anything under a blanket * unwanted house guests * paper bags * floor rugs * Chuck Norris * Feet. Great with children (assuming you don’t like the children). Probably best used for...

Looks like McCain is headed for a southern sweep, as predicted I might add. Coming soon my first official Electoral College recap. I remind you that in 04 I only missed New Hampshire. Ignore all other Electoral College recaps but mine.

HOW EXACTLY did the feds "Get Smart" about Anne Hathaway's breakup with her troubled boyfriend? A pal of jailed wheeler-dealer Raffaello Follieri suspects the starlet spoke with the FBI shortly before they arrested her ex for an alleged $6 million con job. "It makes sense," the friend said. "She's referred to as his former girlfriend in the indictment even though her spokesman never confirmed they broke up." Hathaway, who is not identified by name in the criminal complaint, split with Follieri shortly before his arrest last week. He is charged with posing as an agent of the Vatican to fleece...

I live in a land locked area so when I see news like this it makes me jealous. While I get to trek up mountains, carrying my owners lunch and drink on my back, these dogs get to go out and surf. Yeah, that’s right, surf. (This year was the 3rd Annual Loews Coronado Bay Resort Surf Dog Competition at Imperial Beach in California. These canines bring a whole new meaning to the term sea dog.) See last years winner on video...

My daughter has a 4 year old Sprint phone, Samsung A620. It has died with 300+ of her contacts in it, which of course she never backed up. The Sprint people says there's nothing they can do to recover the data. Can anybody help? I doubt the guys on CSI would throw in the towel at this point. Thanks, Sherman.