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(Angry Patriot) – During her tenure at Fox News, Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly were constantly at each other’s throats — often over her selfish attitude and need to make everything about her. So, it makes perfect sense that O’Reilly revealed that her nickname was “Me-Again” Kelly, via Washington Feed. According to O’Reilly, it was “always about Megyn,” which is not hard to believe. All of the drama surrounding Kelly is coming out in the open after she tore up her contract with Fox News, with some months still remaining on it. Kelly was on a break from Fox News...

A northern Idaho woman told police she crashed into a deer because she was distracted by a sasquatch in her rearview mirror. The Moscow-Pullman Daily News reports that the 50-year-old Tensed woman was driving south on U.S. Highway 95 on Wednesday when she struck a deer near Potlatch.

The instrumental hymns are, (There is a Fountain Filled with Blood) and the chorus, (God Be With You, Till We Meet Again), both are accompanied with lyrics.

The European Union’s transport commissioner is calling for a continent-wide car toll system that would enable motorists to use all European roads without having to stop at borders. […] [Transport Commissioner Violeta] Bulc said every country could decide for itself whether it wants a car toll system, but those that do should participate in a standardized electronic system. She said tolls would be collected via a prepaid system or monthly bills, and the proceeds would go to participating nations. …

Lights will flick off throughout the Twin Cities on Saturday night as civic leaders join a global movement to conserve energy. During Earth Hour, iconic monuments such as Paris’ Eiffel Tower, London’s House of Parliament and New York’s Empire State Building will go dark when the clock strikes 8:30 p.m. local times. Minnesota’s State Capitol, along with dozens of other businesses and local institutions plan, to participate by shutting off all nonessential lighting for that hour. For the event, billed as “the world’s largest voluntary action for the environment,” the cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Eden Prairie are encouraging...

Okay, I'm throwing a Hail-Mary out here: Has anyone out there worked with sending SOAP requests with MTOM attachments using PHP? Sound geekish? It is. It's no problem using JAVA, but I needed it to work with PHP for a client.

The other days I got the munchies for peanut butter so I put some on bread and enjoyed it. I also like peanut butter in ice cream as well as cookies. Also I like peanut butter shakes. Okay, by now you guessed it...I like peanut butter. And I'm sure most of you do too. So my big question is why does most of the rest of the world HATE peanut butter while it is very popular with North Americans (Americans and Canadians)? I read that peanut butter is so hated by most of the rest of the world that once...

Folks, I am going to contact all of the members of the Freedom Caucus (Ken Buck is from my state) and personally THANK them for stopping the bill to tinker with Obamacare. I will also strongly encourage them to dust off one of the Obamacare repeal bills that was sent to President Obama and remind the other Republican members of the House of their prior voting record. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Caucus#Membership

I know that a large number of Freepers here are former military. Nobody has better or funnier stories about life than those recalling their military experience--especially Basic Training! I remember Reader's Digest used to have a monthly section that allowed readers to share their humorous military experiences. Is you were ever in the military, share your favorite story here!

Enormous mechanical monsters #1)The Grand Elephant and #2) Kumo, The Giant Spider (la Grande Araignee), on the last day of its performances at the Parc des Chantiers on the Île de Nantes, in Nantes, France.

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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — A Canadian provincial government has withdrawn a man's eponymous personalized vehicle license plate, saying Lorne Grabher's surname is offensive to women when viewed on his car bumper. Grabher said Friday that he put his last name on the license plate decades ago as a gift for his late father's birthday, and says the province's refusal to renew the plate late last year is unfair.

COLUMBIA, TN (WSMV) - The Maury County Public School district is promising better communication as it copes with the disappearance of 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas. nvestigators believe Thomas was kidnapped by her teacher, 50-year-old Tad Cummins, last Monday. Channel 4 has uncovered new information about where Thomas and Cummins were allowed to go together after they were allegedly caught kissing in a classroom.

I receive daily videos of President Duterte because of our interest in the Philippines.

Raeford, N.C. — A toddler and days-old infant who were reported missing Friday following a domestic incident in Fayetteville were found stabbed to death early Saturday in Hoke County, and their father is charged with their deaths, Sheriff Hubert Peterkin said. Authorities discovered the bodies of 2-year-old Serenity Freeman and 4-day-old Genesis Freeman at about 2 a.m. inside a car off the side of the road near the intersection of N.C. Highway 211 and Army Road. Both children were stabbed multiple times, Peterkin said

For music fans, the recent flood of celebrity deaths has been overwhelming: David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael and Chuck Berry seem like a disproportionate number of superstars to lose in a short time span. But with many of rock’s founding fathers and mothers reaching their 70s, the end of the age of rock ’n’ roll is just beginning. While every generation bemoans the passing of its great artists, the outsize influence of rock promises to have a profound impact on popular culture and overall music-industry sales. Of the 25 artists with the highest record sales in...

Over the past few months, Americans from across the country have been terrorized by bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and other religious institutions. For those unfamiliar with them, JCCs are important institutions in Jewish communities, providing childcare, education, arts, sports, and spurring quite a bit of civic engagement in their neighborhoods. For parents, it matters little who is behind the threats. Still, assumptions about these events quickly trumped vigilance for political reasons. And that’s a problem...... So, many on the Left blamed Trump’s rhetoric for feeding anti-Semitism. The Democratic National Committee accused the president of showing “a clear pattern”...

LOUDON COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- A Loudon County father who lost his daughter in a car crash said she would be alive today if it wasn't for the guardrail she hit. The Tennessee Department of Transportation acknowledged the guardrails are unsafe and has started to correct the problem. Hannah Eimers was just 17 years old and had her whole life ahead of her. "She was remarkable," her father Stephen said. "She graduated at the age of 15. She was self-taught German, Russian and American Sign Language." Her life ended last November on Interstate 75 near Niota when her car left...

FULL TITLE: Ex-Penn State president convicted of child endangerment for failing to protect Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse victims Penn State University's former president Graham Spanier has been convicted of child endangerment over his handling of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. A jury in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, found Spanier guilty of one count of child endangerment. They determined that he was responsible for victims who were sexually assaulted by former Penn State assistant football coach Sandusky in a school locker room shower in 2001. Sandusky, a former assistant football coach, was convicted of abusing 10 boys in 2012. He is behind...

So What Happened to Wiretapping "Smoking Gun"? Didn't Nunes say that the NSA would be releasing info on Friday?