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Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava's decision not to endorse either of her opponents after suspending her bid for ex-Rep. John McHugh's seat was a tactical move made in concert with Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman's campaign, a source close to Scozzafava confirmed. snip

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Amazing stuff. Evidently her first ever TV interview, fifty years ago. This is in three parts. Hope I posted this correctly. If I screwed it up, mods, please clean it up.

The presidential race this year offers a study in contrasts. On the one hand in John McCain we have a war hero who endured torture and terrorism as a prisoner of the communist regime of North Vietnam. On the other hand in Barack Obama we have a candidate of Marxist background who has allied himself with anti-American terrorists. The choice is between America's candidate and the candidate of America's enemies. 1. Obama's Marxist background includes (a) his parents, his father a theoretical communist and his mother a fellow traveler; (b) his Hawaiin mentor Frank Marshall Davis, member of the CPUSA;...

This is an email I received from a good friend in New York City. She is a Bryn Mawr graduate, and is a physician currently engaged in cancer research at Columbia University. This is an email she received from a Bryn Mawr classmate of hers who lives in Alaska. Because you, like me, may never have heard of Sarah Palin until today, you may find this an interesting perspective from an Alaskan resident. B Begin forwarded message: Subject: just in from Bonnie's classmate Dear classmates - As an Alaskan, I am writing to give all of you some information on...

Stop sending me stuff. It's because of your "maverick" behavior that we are in the condition we are in. You stabbed a great President in the back on numerous occassions. You, and the gang of 14 rendered our congressional majority into a bunch of eunuchs, singing soprano for the media and the beltway crowd. I'll probably be forced to vote for you, given the alternatives, however, just barely and only because you may not totally screw us on judges. Meanwhile, leave me alone.

I just witnessed a car chase from the FOX helicopter feed around where I live. It was fast around Roscoe Blvd., Owensmouth Ave, De Soto Ave, etc. and ended on Topanga Blvd. where Chatsworth Park is near the hills. 12 police cars came by to stop it. Those were airborne videos. Note that this is near very dark. There is a ground video of men and women coming to the noise wondering WTF? I only take a lady to a beach in Ventura that makes hearts quiet.

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 Hello everyone here on FreeRepublic, I know that this is going to sound really dense, but I was wondering as to how various members are able to post images within their respective replies on threads. In addition, I am wondering as to how to post a background image or subsequent smaller images onto the "About Me" personal info file here on Free Republic (you know, the one that allows for user's to select your alias in order to gain further information about yourself: location, links, interests, etc. I have having a difficult time in uploading an...

Rich must pay bulk of climate change bill: Oxfam By Jeremy Lovell 37 minutes ago Coping with the ravages of global warming will cost $50 billion a year, and the rich nations who caused most of the pollution must pay most of the bill, aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday. The call, barely 10 days before a crucial Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany which has climate change at its core, is likely to make already tense negotiations even tougher. The United States, which Oxfam says must foot 44 percent of the annual $50 billion bill, is rejecting attempts...

By John Ruwitch YUNFU, China, May 18 (Reuters) - When some of her pigs stopped eating, it was Zhu Hongying's first sign that they were sick. She called a veterinarian, who diagnosed them with a fever and administered injections. Exactly what medicine they were given, she did not say, but the jabs didn't help. "The more shots they were given, the worse they got," Zhu said. "Their bodies turned black. About a week later, they died."

NAIROBI, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Twice badly burned in Somalia, the United States appears to be pursuing a third intervention that many Western and regional diplomats say could set off a disastrous war in the Horn of Africa. Sent into a policy tailspin by its backing of Mogadishu warlords toppled by Islamists earlier this year, Washington has resurrected a two-year-old plan to send African peacekeepers into Somalia. Peacekeeping, Somalia and the United States have proved a volatile mix. Washington abandoned a joint operation with the United Nations after 18 U.S. soldiers were killed and hundreds of Somalis slaughtered in the...

Sean Penn is at it again, shooting off his mouth at a news conference for the Toronto International Film Festival and calling President Bush "Beelzebub." Penn used the biblical term for a prince of devils while promoting the remake of the political drama "All the King's Men" on Sunday. "One could make the argument that George Bush is a good politician," Penn said at one point. Then he added: "I think the issue is how you define politician. Once upon a time, politics was the organization of things to benefit the people." Penn said the definition has changed – much...

Christians are Jews' best friends Toronto Sun Sat, August 12, 2006 By MICHAEL COREN One of the most difficult things about spending time in Israel is returning home, as I did two weeks ago. As dangerous as life might be in the Jewish state at the moment, daily existence is layered in significance. Then it's back to North America, where the trivial is made to seem profound. I refer to Mel Gibson's drunken stupidity when he made various repugnant comments about Jewish people. As a Roman Catholic with three Jewish grandparents, and someone who worries every day about the...

The Clintons Made Anti-Semitic Remarks (and also Democrat darlings Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Michael Jackson, Farahkan, and countless other high profile Democrats - but the Leftist media gives their own a pass of course - hypocrites!) NewsMax.com September 21, 1999 Washington - Hillary Clinton, a candidate for U.S. Senator from New York, has been courting the Jewish vote and has even suggested she has Jewish ancestors. Hillary’s desire to woo the Jewish community is understandable, but retired Arkansas state trooper Larry Patterson says Hillary Clinton is no friend of the Jewish community. During the six years Patterson guarded the Clintons, he...

Because the Hamdan case was not up on my favorite research site at Cornell Law School early this morning, I read the press coverage first and the decisions afterward. The press has only a superficial understanding of the case, and missed the most important aspect of the decision. The case is Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, No. No. 05–184, June 29, 2006. Source: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/05-184.ZS.html The Christian Science Monitor gets the facial decision correctly: The court ruled 5-to-3 Thursday that Mr. Bush acted outside his authority when he ordered Al Qaeda suspects to stand trial before these specially organized military commissions. The ruling...

What are your thought on the Nephilims and the secondary tie-in to the Mormon Church. I find this subject fascinating....if not VERY creepy.

Christ has risen from the dead! And because He lives, we who know Him shall live also. In the Resurrection Jesus Christ conquered sin and death, and now He is alive forevermore. All over the world, churches are filled with worshipers because there is an empty tomb in Jerusalem. A Message by Billy Graham. http://www.billygraham.org/DMag_Article.asp?ArticleID=534

Yes, this is video of a few of our guys under attack by KIDS WITH ROCKS. But watch it, and listen... it is both scary and funny. God bless the guy who taped this. Google Video Link

KOSOVO, the former Yugoslav province, is falling into the grip of Albanian organised crime gangs, casting a shadow over attempts by the international community to turn it into a fully fledged independent state by the end of this year. Participants in talks in Vienna, sponsored by the United Nations, on the “final status” of Kosovo, are concerned that the mafia networks that smuggled guns into the disputed province from Albania in 1997 and 1998 are using the same channels for a burgeoning trade in illicit petrol, cigarettes and cement. Prostitution and drugs are also popular staples of the black economy....

Country trio the DIXIE CHICKS are planning to re-ignite their feud with US President GEORGE W BUSH in a provocative new song. The group sparked controversy when singer NATALIE MAINES publicly criticised Bush during a concert in London in 2003 - and fans staged bonfires, where they burned CDs and merchandise after calling the girls traitors. That led to Maines sobbing during an apologetic interview on US TV. But the feisty singer remains defiant and has penned new tune NOT READY TO MAKE NICE, which addresses the controversy surrounding her concert comments. Maines teamed up with former SEMISONIC frontman DAN...

senator_levin@levin.senate.gov wrote: Dear Mr. Murray: Thank you for contacting me regarding drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I appreciate hearing your views. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, located in the northeast corner of Alaska, is one of the last remaining pristine wilderness areas in the United States. It also holds the potential for oil and gas development. The 1980 Alaskan Lands Act reserved 104 million acres of this area as a national park, refuge or wilderness. As a result, oil and gas development is currently prohibited in most portions of the refuge. I believe opening the refuge...

Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth In rat study, synthetic cannabinoid also boosted rodents' mood THURSDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- When it comes to the controversy surrounding medical marijuana, an international team of researchers is busy stirring the pot by releasing findings that suggest the drug helps promote brain cell growth while treating mood disorders. According to the study in rats, a super-potent synthetic version of the cannabinoid compound found in marijuana can reduce depression and anxiety when taken over an extended period of time. This mood boost seems to be the result of the drug's ability to promote...

I find this website so unbelievable. Surely this site cannot be a mouthpiece for the common democratic voter. I am appalled at the language, tenor, ignorance and hate that is fomented on this site. Freepers may be for Republicans, but you don't see the vitriol spewing forth on this site (if there is they are booted) that you see on the dem site. If that is how the dems actually feel, I hope they never again gain power. This site should be exposed to the general public. I signed up and posted a reply that was not pro Bush, just...

While many people this month are focused on the controversy surrounding the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, I have another civil-rights-related 40th anniversary on my mind. On Aug. 11, 1965, the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles broke out in flames on the nation's television screens. Many cherish the memory as the moment when the militant became mainstream in a "fed-up" black America, replacing the nonviolent, gradualist efforts of old-guard civil rights leaders. The Watts riot indeed shaped modern black American history more decisively than the Voting Rights Act. The question is whether it was in a...

Behind the rhetoric lies a contempt in some quarters for the work of public educators BY SUSAN OHANIAN George Packer, a New Yorker staff writer, points to the danger of clarity, observing that seemingly simple and tough-minded words blow out as much smoke as the jargon of the Pentagon of decades past. Nowhere is this smoke thicker and trickier than in the lingo the corporate-politico-media squad uses when talking about public schools. At first glance, their talk seems plain and to the point: failing schools, caring about education and education as war. In contrast, education progressives befuddle the public with...

THE GOD VS. Darwin debate went to the White House last week when President Bush weighed in, stating in a roundtable interview with reporters that ''intelligent design" should be taught along with evolution in public schools. It's a move that has undoubtedly pleased the president's conservative religious base. However, it has also caused much unhappiness among those conservatives who want the Republican Party to be something other than a political arm of the religious right, including such strong Bush supporters as columnist Charles Krauthammer and University of Tennessee law professor/blogger Glenn Reynolds.

By JOSE RODRIGUEZ   This space is generally reserved for cutting commentary, venomous verbiage and the odd shot of comic relief. Not today. Because even those of us lucky enough to be in the opinion industry (read: professional whiners) know a good thing when we see it.   It's Canada Day and despite the chronic criticisms that clacks from this keyboard all the other days of the year, today is a day to toast the Maple Leaf and raise a beer to Mother Canada. So bottoms up -- we have plenty to celebrate. If it wasn't for Canadians, the world...

Has anybody been watching the Discovery channel where, right now, The Greatest American program is on? Votes are bing taken by phone and on-line for the greatest American.

Matthew Khalil goes to the movies about once a month, down from five or six times just a few years ago. Mr. Khalil, a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, prefers instead to watch old movies and canceled television shows on DVD. He also spends about 10 hours a week with friends playing the video game Halo 2. And he has to study, which means hours on the Internet and reading at least a book a week. "If I want to watch a movie I can just rent it on DVD," he said. "I want to do things...

Here’s a statistical comparison that you will not – repeat: not – see anywhere in the liberal media: May 10, 1997 The prior month’s initial jobless claims = 1,312,000. Employed workforce = 129.464 million. New jobless claims as a share of the employed workforce = 1.01 percent. On the other hand, there’s this: May 7, 2005 The prior month’s initial jobless claims = 1,296,000. Employed workforce = 141.099 million (as of April 2005). New jobless claims as a share of the employed workforce = 0.92 percent. Yeah, that’s right, there are 11.635 million more jobs, right now, when compared to...

There was a new report calling for reform of U.S. intelligence last week. It contradicts the last report calling for reform of U.S. intelligence. The last one wanted to centralize intelligence, which has since been done. The new one wants to decentralize intelligence. Good luck getting anyone's attention with intelligence-reform reform three weeks after the last go-round. If Sandy Berger stuffed every post-9/11 report down his pants, waddled off, cut them up in his kitchen and returned them randomly pasted together, I doubt it would make any difference. Meanwhile, back in the real world, the glass in Iraq is three-quarters...

”For MEDICAL and LEGAL purposes, partial brain “impairment,” MUST be distinguished from complete and irreversible loss of brain functions or “WHOLE BRAIN DEATH.”

Fat chicks with big hair stand out like an elephant at a flamingo farm. I didn't know that till I read it here. I read this here, too, in response to someone who was making too fine a point on something: My, my, picking pepper out of flyshit, aren't we? What are the coolest expressions you know? The greatest folksy putdowns? The wish-I'd'a-said-that comebacks. The most colorful damned American ways of saying things? Care to share? I would very much like to liven up my smartmouth. Thank you, folks. And for those of you who got nothin'...please refer back to...

Can the Tories figure out how Bush won again? By Charles Moore (Filed: 04/11/2004) A conservative has just won for a second time, more strongly than four years ago. It is the biggest vote ever cast for a conservative in the history of the world. And that conservative's job is the most important in the world. Where is the British Conservative Party? The most honest answer is, no one is quite sure. Michael Howard, the party leader, is strongly Atlanticist, but he devoted so much energy earlier this year to trying to catch Tony Blair out over the war in...

Oct. 31, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- President Bush and John Kerry are not only distant cousins -- they can be traced back to Count Dracula. That's according to Provo's reputable genealogical research company MyFamily-dot-com. The search firm says both presidential candidates are loosely related through as many as 34 generations to the man who became known as Count Dracula. He was born in 1431 as Prince Vlad the third, and he ruled southern Romania for a time. MyFamily-dot-com says it showed the bloodthirsty warlord's connection to modern times have a little fun before Halloween. But the company insists...

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He may wear a pretty, skintight Body Glove, Gucci Turtleneck, listen to Barbara Streisand, and have an artificial bronze hue; but don't kid yourself, he don't swing that way. He's plenty tough enough! By day he's the windsurfing, flip-flopping, French looking Liberal Senator from Massachusetts; but by night, John Kerry is... "Metro-Sexual Man." With his trusty sidekick Silky Boy, it's off to the Femmobile to save America from his arch nemesis "W" and his partner in crime "The VP." Financed by his Billionaire Sugar-Mamma "Teresa" (actually the inspiration for the Kinks 1970 hit Lola), Metro-Man and Silky Boy promise to...

There is a possibility that the democrats.org 'email campaign' originated from individuals within the sacbee.com internal network or the people writing those letters are "spoofing" the headers. Some quick points: 1) the 192.168 address is reserved for internal (private networks) RFC 1918 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix) 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix) 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix) 2) A search for democrats.org's IP address also reveals that it is not 192.168 but instead: 65.221.0.200 http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=trace&Netnic=whois.arin.net&host=democrats.org 3) This means one...

Selected exerpts! US, Iraqi Forces Attack Insurgents in Samarra U.S. and Iraqi forces have pushed into the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, north of Baghdad and taken control of key government buildings and religious sites. U.S. military officials estimate close to 100 insurgents were killed, and say one U.S. soldier was killed and four were wounded. Heavy fighting began after midnight Friday and continued into the afternoon, as U.S. troops, along with members of the Iraqi army and Iraq's National Guard regained control of much of the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad. Sixty-year-old store owner Walid Rafiq says the insurgents...

The following excerpt is from MyWay.com.The first four months of 1972 are at the beginning of a controversial period in Bush's Guard service. After taking his last flight in April 1972, Bush went for six months without showing up for any training drills. In September 1972 he received permission to transfer to an Alabama Guard unit so he could work on a political campaign there. I have read just about every post listed on FR today about this item. And no where have I seen it posted or stated that in 1972 there were 641 casualties from all types of...

Daughters teen site. She's trying to teach liberal kids to think, but there's a lot of them. They're all using the left's talking points. She's attempting to fight them off on her own. Could use a friendly "FReeping" to come to her aid. She's asking FReepers to say "Help is on the way." LOL. She's 15.The topics are abortion and the death penality.

(1) YOU'RE KEN STARR. (2) YOU DON'T WANT TO FIND OSAMA. Bush said he doesn't care where Osama is hiding. I'm not making that up; Bush said he doesn't care where Osama bin Laden - the man behind the September 11 attack on America - is hiding. (3) YOU HATE AMERICA. Like the terrorists, you can't stand the freedom America stands for, so you support The Patriot Act, Homeland Security, secrecy about what happened on 9/11, torture as a means of "information-gathering," a non-accredited school's right to ban interracial dating, and flying the bin Laden family out of the country...

Vote for your most favorite hottie TV mom. There were so many great ones, It's hard to choose! June Cleave Rocks! but Then Carolyn Jones is beyond compare!

Where can I find Kerry's major accomplishments in the Senate? What committees has he served on, what has he chaired, what legislation has he sponsored? Where has he shown any leadership on anything?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/10/wiwo10.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/10/ixworld.html Spielberg to film story of Iwo Jima soldiers By Hugh Davies (Filed: 10/07/2004) The iconic image of six US soldiers raising the Stars and Stripes over the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in 1945 is to be brought back to the cinema by Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood. Spielberg has recruited Eastwood to direct the film of the bestselling book Flags of Our Fathers. The book, written by James Bradley, tells the story of the six soldiers, one of whom was the author's father, before and after that day in February 1945. The photograph was a staged repetition of...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The spokesman for militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr tempered threats to continue fighting Monday, saying his movement only planned to wage "peaceful resistance" against the interim government. Al-Sadr issued a statement Sunday from his office in the Shiite holy city of Najaf calling the new interim Iraqi government "illegitimate" and pledging "to continue resisting oppression and occupation to our last drop of blood." But Sadr's spokesman in Baghdad, Mahmoud al-Soudani, called a news conference Monday to clarify that the statement was not a call to arms. He said that many of al-Sadr's supporters in Baghdad had begun...

For good and ill, the Iraqi prisoner abuse mess will remain an issue. On the one hand, right thinking Americans will abhor the stupidity of the actions while on the other hand, political glee will take control and fashion this minor event into some modern day My Lai massacre. I heard some Arabs and Muslims are asking for an apology. I humbly offer mine here: I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and sacrificed the blood of our youth, it was in the defense of Muslims (Bosnia, Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait, etc.). I...

This is another good source on information about "the gipper" "Dutch", "Ronnie", "the 40th President of the United States / America". Well --- You know who I'm refering to. go here

By Christopher Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - A newly minted deck of cards of President Bush (news - web sites) and members of his team akin to the Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) cards hawked during the Iraq (news - web sites) war are selling at a brisk pace in New York.   Locals are snapping up the cards at Marc Jacobs' chic clothing store and other shops in Greenwich Village, retailing for as much as $11, store officials said. Street vendors and Internet outlets are also peddling the cards, which portray the Bush administration in a comically negative...

As patients wait and technicians fume, San Francisco General Hospital is hobbling along with X-ray machines that are nearly 3-decades-old - - while down the hall, more than $1 million in new equipment sits in unopened boxes. And it's been that way for at least three years. Why?