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A 26-year old Greek woman has become an overnight national hero after setting fire to the genitals of a 23-year old drunken Briton who allegedly tried to sexually assault her in a crowded bar. The unidentified woman from the fiercely proud island of Crete won herself even more praise by doing the right legal thing – turning herself over to police and the courts to be put on trial for what she claimed was her "right to self-defence". She will face a magistrate on Friday to see if the case will go to court. She is currently facing an investigating...

Does the Confederate Flag offend you? http://www.sodahead.com/question/537677/does-the-confederate-flag-offend-you/ I came across this question asked at SodaHead.com that has produced a lively discussion with over 2500 comments. I thought I would post it here at Free Republic and see if it gets a similiar response.

Forget about the birthers, and the nutty claims that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. More and more, we are hearing from people who might best be described as anti-birthers. Their claims have nothing to do with long- versus short-form Hawaiian birth certificates. Instead, they advance a simple proposition: that the birth of each additional American child is a kind of calamity for the environment. The most recent example of anti-birth thinking comes from Paul Murtaugh and Michael Schlax of Oregon State University. In a study called “Reproduction and the carbon legacies of individuals,” they suggest...

Normally I don't post videos and I'm sure many have already seen this, but you gotta love this guy for his marketing skills and the way he handles his CNN interview. I know liberals everywhere are probably trying to shut him down. I say, "Go see Mark at MAX MOTORS for your next car or truck! GOD, GUTS, GUNS, AND TRUCKS... If you haven't seen this, I promise you it will "make your day!" Edisto Joe The Edisto Joe Outlook

Those are the words of President Obama. Just how great is the health plan Congress is on? Why do they refuse to take part in their new plan for the country? There must be certain advantages that make it hard to give up. Well, let's take a look. Among the advantages: a choice between 10 health care plans that provide access to a national network of doctors, including numerous HMOs that serve each member's state. (In comparison, 85% of private companies offering health coverage to their employees only offer one type of plan, usually the least expensive, with an option...

I am tyring to find a video of a news article of Al Gore in the 1996 Presidential Campaign telling Students from a FFA Group {Future Farmers of America} that they need to find a new career due to upcoming U.S. polocies shifting farming to overseas locations / countries. Can anyone help? pacrattsview@yahoo.com

Will Obama bail on Afghanistan? The man is obviously driven by poll numbers, witness his recent trips to Ohio where his popularity is below 50% , his hastily called “beer garden” conference, and his relentless stumping for his signature domestic issue, National Health Care. Anything or anywhere the public opinion is going south on him he quickly rushes in to try and change it. He has that resolve, but what about his resolve when it comes to prosecuting the War on Terror?... ...When a President sends men and women into battle he needs to be out front, not leading the...

A Conway woman who had video surveillance of a man having sexual intercourse with one of her horses said she found the suspect behind her barn Monday night and pointed a shotgun at his head until police arrived and arrested him. Rodell Vereen, 50, of Longs, is charged with buggery and trespassing after Barbara Kenley, who leases Lazy B Stables on Coates Road in the Wampee section of Horry County, told officers she had video of the suspect having sex with a horse then wanted to catch him at her barn. ``That stable was my getaway, my stress relief,'' said...

I'm not normally given to posting at Free Republic because my politics generally lie elsewhere, but I think the latest "story" about Obama's birth certificate from CNN really shows that the end is near for the lies on this issue. According to reports: TVNewser has learned CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein sent an email to a handful of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" staffers last night regarding the coverage of the so-called birthers and the validity of Pres. Obama's birth in the U.S. In part, Klein writes, "It seems this story is dead- because anyone who still is not convinced doesn't really have...

Tallahassee Naturally is one of more than 100 locations trying to set a new record. The Guinness Book of World Records established a category of the most people skinny-dipping at one time. The record will be set at 3 pm Saturday, July 11th, all across the country. "It's fun, it's wholesome. For a lot of people it's almost a spiritual experience, being a natural part of nature," said Paul LeValley, the treasurer for Tallahassee Naturally. Organizers say they're hosting an open house Saturday *AND* Sunday. Saturday's dress code is clothing from 10am-11am, clothing optional from 11am to 1pm, then nude...

Paula Reed Ward and Dennis B. Roddy reported today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Federal prosecutors filed corruption charges yesterday against a onetime defense contractor who has ties to both John Murtha and a suburban Johnstown defense contractor currently under criminal investigation. Richard S. Ianieri, former president and CEO of Coherent Systems International Corp., was accused of accepting $200,000 in kickbacks. He is charged through a criminal information and is expected to plead guilty. The indictment of Ianieri represents the first charges leveled as a result of investigations into firms receiving defense earmarks – many of which benefited former aides and...

I've never posted a straight Vanity before. But I am sick and tired of this good conservative, generally religious site being overrun by people posting "I'd hit it", whenever a picture of a good-looking girl is displayed. It's demeaning, it's immoral, and I guess I'm just a prude but announcing to the world that you'd like to have sex with a woman based on her picture, like she was some object, hardly seems like the appropriate attitude on a conservative political site. But rather than post in response to any particular person, I figured I'd just vent here where everybody...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - As Wal-Mart Stores Inc. opens about 150 new or expanded stores in the U.S. in 2009, the company expects to hire about 22,000 people for new positions. Those positions include plenty of cashiers and stock clerks, but the world’s largest retailer will also be adding store managers, pharmacists and personnel workers. Wal-Mart is holding its annual shareholders meeting on Friday, and employees from its stores around the world are spending the week in Bentonville at company headquarters. Unlike many retailers, Wal-Mart has managed to keep sales growing since the recession began in late 2007, helped greatly by...

Six Most Important Factors that destroyed Roman Civilization: 1)Overtaxation 2)Opression of the Provences by the Central Government 3)Government topheavy with bureaucracy 4)Military power overextended across the world(their world at the time) 5)The Populace diverted by degenerate mass entertainment 6) The Borders poorly defended against increasing foreign migration(in their case, Barbarians)

Good-bye. A few months ago, I posted some information on bank financial strength. The post was a complex table and it took me sometime to make the post. Not long after, I forget but perhaps 10 or 20 minutes, the post disappeared. Figuring I made a mistake, I posted it again. This time I was pretty sure I posted it correctly. It disappeared within a few minutes. To verify that this was what was happening, I posted a third time. It again disappeared immediately. I never received any feedback from FreeRepublic on this matter. It annoyed me, but since I...

FIRST PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L_p14_Nu8Q http://serve.gov/ In "What Interests You?" I typed Defense In "Where WOuld You Like To Volunteer?" I Typed New York This brought me to these results http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=defense&num=10&start=1&vol_loc=new%20york&timeperiod=everything&cache=1 Very first result was for Earth And Animal Liberation Support So I clicked it Which lead me to here http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/VolunteerOpportunity/85193-103/c This is the description Earth and Animal Liberation Support Location: New York, New York, 10013, United States Organization: Wetlands Activism Collective Start date: May 31, 2002 Sex: All are welcome Skill(s): legal Last updated: June 20, 2009 End date: December 31, 2010 Age: Adults (18-64), Seniors (65...

Nasty Debbie Schlussel hates Sarah Palin, ~ refering to her as vapid, and her 18 year old daughter as "slutty". Deb complains about hate mail she gets, but Ms Schlussel has been very hateful in her diatribes. She is intolerant of any criticism, of which she will interpret as threats- I don't just mean the obvious retorts she get as her website. She has turned on fellow conservatives(such as at FoxNews), she is now scathing against Ann Coulter for defending Sarah Palin! Deborah Schlussel should be boycotted!

For too long, women have had to compromise practicality for beauty. Men got pants with cargo pockets and built-in knee pads, women got clothes whose only built-in feature was cuteness. But why should men get all the high-speed low-drag tactical toys? Tactical gear is no longer an all boys club. Tactical Corsets bring female operators MILSPEC features like MOLLE modular pouch attachment webbing and self-adjustable quick-release buckles in a load-bearing carrier designed to support the female form. And we're just getting started. Tactical Corsets are now available for custom order. More details on styles, sizing, materials and more is coming...

A celebration of American life in better times. Grab a Slice and a Coke and enjoy! When Hollywood was Fun Toys, Cereal Ads and Logos The Best Wheels Ever and much more

I like the b-movies of the 1950's and 1960's the best. Little or no foul language, not too much violence, and the wacky cheesy monsters they created. Today it is all femminazi superbimbos in charge, tons of CGI effects, and they are all produced in Canada :-Z Last night I watched a sci-fi flick from 1962 called: Journey To The Seventh Planet, that had some really hokey monsters- one of which was a one-eyed dinosaur creature with rat-like features and big three fingered claws. This film was created by the same team that made ANGREY RED PLANET of 1959. Ib...

PHIL Spector's a killer in bed, too. "We had sex. We were doing it all the time," his hot, blond and much younger wife, Rachelle, told the LA Times, speaking out for the first time since the Wall of Sound producer was convicted of murder and sent to prison for the next 19 years. But it gets creepier. Rachelle, who's 28, just two years older than Spector's daughter, Nicole, gave a choke-inducing peek at the bizarre spot they chose to tie the knot: the entranceway to Spector's Alhambra, Calif., mansion, where he blew away actress Lana Clarkson in 2003.

Think of it as “TMZ,” only substitute intern hubris for celebrity hijinks. A new blog dedicated to catching Washington interns on their worst behavior is making the rounds among Hill staffers.

Could the flat tax come to California? Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today that he would like to see such “radical” proposals come out of a commission now studying an overhaul of the state’s tax system. The governor told the editorial board of the Sacramento Bee that he hoped the commission would not be afraid to propose something like “a 15% straight tax.” “That’s the kind of radical, daring kind of a proposal that I want to see on the table so we can look at it and say, ‘Oh, let’s study this, maybe that is the way to go,’ ”...

ABOUT THE SHOW: The artist that electrified audiences in A&E's hit series Inked is in a new tattoo series that takes us beyond the shop. Tattoo Highway follows artist Thomas Pendelton as he travels the country in a mobile tattoo parlor of his own design, a converted 1970s Silver Eagle Tour Bus. On the outside, it's a moving metal canvas of Thomas' art; on the inside, it's a fully functional tattoo parlor. Whether he's tattooing a Crown Dancer for an Apache Elder in New Mexico or a bat-winged heart on a mortician's chest in Sacramento, Thomas is on the road...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash., May 21 (UPI) -- Police in Washington state said a suspect used his genitals as a puppet while standing over an air conditioner intake at an apartment complex. The police report of the incident said Timothy Wayne Martin, 44, of Auburn, Wash., was arrested after residents of the Arcadia Apartment Complex in Federal Way called police at about 10:30 a.m. May 13 and reported a man standing over an air conditioner intake wearing only an unbuttoned flannel shirt and "was apparently manipulating" his penis with a string "like a puppet," Seattlepi.com reported Thursday. Police said Martin was...

One of the greatest misconceptions of American history is that the Civil War was fought over slavery. Those who subscribe to this belief see President Abraham Lincoln as the benevolent leader who made unimaginable sacrifices in human blood to wipe out America’s greatest sin. While the human sacrifice is indisputable and the sin was monumental, the war’s purpose was not to free blacks from the shackles of bondage. Rather, the Civil War was fought with one purpose in mind: To preserve the Union at all costs. And, to put it in Lincoln’s terms, with no ifs, ands, or buts. You’d...

(ANAHEIM, Calif.) — Disney says it will no longer scan riders on Splash Mountain and three other rides for guests who feel the need to flash their breasts for souvenir photos.

The Senate voted 65-31 to confirm Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services. Just last week Sebelius again denied protection to the unborn when she vetoed a bill that would provide increased regulations on performing late term abortions. Nineteen Catholic Senators supported the Sebelius nomination and six Catholic Senators opposed. Two Catholic senators who are ardently pro-life supported the governor; Senator Sam Brownback and Senator George Voinovich. Senator Brownback announced his support early on which was a surprise and a major disappointment to many in the pro-life movement. Senator Murkowski, who has a mixed...

With his glib dismissal of pot legalization, the president looks less like the man, and more like The Man. When the generation of Americans under the age of 30 gets around to realizing that this handsome young president might not be nearly as cool as they’d hoped, it won’t be hard to affix a date on when the milk began to sour. It was March 26, 2009, when Barack Obama conducted a live town hall press conference featuring questions submitted online.

Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and will be suspended 50 games starting today, The Times has learned. The test result and suspension is expected to be announced later today. The Dodgers informed triple-A outfielder Xavier Paul this morning that he was being promoted to Los Angeles. Ramirez is expected to attribute the test results to medication received from a doctor for a personal medical issue, according to a source familiar with matter but not authorized to speak publicly. With the suspension taking effect with tonight's game at Dodger Stadium, Ramirez will not be eligible to return to...

An odd thought occurred to me today. Suppose you could wave your hand and magically make an entire mindset disappear such that nobody would ever again embrace that ideology. Suppose further the choice was either/or. Which would you choose: liberalism or terrorism ?

I don't know about any of you, but as much as I like what GM is producing now, in the whole, I will never buy a car from a company that is owned by the UAW and a Socialist-in-Chief. Just sayin'

A US woman has written a book about the unusual gift she gave her husband for his 40th birthday - 365 nights of sex. High-flying PR exec Charla Muller, from North Carolina, hit upon the idea for her salesman husband Brad, now 42, and has written a book about the year. Here's some of the excerpts printed in The Sun: "When I offered my husband sex every day for a year to celebrate his 40th birthday he literally fell over. After hearing the words, Brad slipped on a toy on the floor and landed with a thud. As I had...

The president (Obama) said he has saved or created 150,000 jobs already. What is he talking about, the econmy purged over 600,000 jobs in the first quarter. And nobody asked him a question on it. Welcome to the future where up is down and left is right.

Police say a man in northeastern Brazil had his penis severed by his girlfriend who accused him of raping her daughter.

by Marylou Barry The First PrinceOnce upon a time, a very long time ago, there lived a prince in a faraway Southern kingdom. The prince was very sad because, although he had always wanted to rule the world, the people of the world had other ideas. So, the prince thought to himself, what would make the people listen to me? The people of the world at that time all believed in a god, either the Creator-God of the Universe or a false god of one description or another, although they could not agree on exactly who or what he was....

I need a laugh!

Head Quarters, Newburgh, March 15, 1783 "Gentlemen: By an anonymous summons, an attempt has been made to convene you together; how inconsistent with the rules of propriety! how unmilitary! and how subversive of all order and discipline, let the good sense of the Army decide. In the moment of this Summons, another anonymous production was sent into circulation, addressed more to the feelings and passions, than to the reason and judgment of the Army. The author of the piece, is entitled to much credit for the goodness of his Pen and I could wish he had as much credit for...

"Huffington Post is running an item implying that President Obama has flip-flopped on the timetable for acquiring a new First Dog, a process that is proving to be harder than filling the Secretary of Commerce post."

A Peruvian farmer underwent an operation after complaining of severe pain from an eight-day erection, a doctor at a hospital in the northern city of Sullana said Thursday. "The patient arrived at the hospital in great pain because of the erection," surgeon Nelson Carrasco told AFP, adding that the 53-year-old had not taken a sexual stimulant or alcohol. He said the patient, whose identity was withheld, suffers from priapism, a persistent erection of the penis often due to a blood clot in the erectile tissue. Carrasco said the man underwent surgery at the Sullana hopsital, about 1000 kilometers (600 miles)...

A few weeks ago a number of purported US Customs & Border Patrol agents (upwards of 20, in uniform jump-suits with guns) appeared at a number of Ft. Lauderdale airport-based businesses that export to the Caribbean. In one such instance, the agents, who refused to properly identify themselves (show proper photo ID), demanded that cargo be placed on the ramp to be x-rayed and then without question or permission made entry onto the non-bonded premises with drug-sniffing dogs. An employee, at the behest of his superior who was not present, took photographs on his cell-phone. An agent who noticed the...

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- The founder of Dignitas, the pro-euthanasia group that operates the Switzerland-based euthanasia clinic, has revealed plans to kill a healthy woman in an assisted suicide. Backers of the practice claim they want suicides for terminally ill patients and the elderly, but they are pushing the envelope even further.Ludwig Minelli calls killing a healthy patient a "marvelous opportunity" and says assisted suicide should no longer be reserved for the disabled or very ill patients.The Dignitas clinic has killed more than 100 people and reports from Zurich University indicate at least 20 percent of them were not terminally...

Isn't Nursing supposed to be about diversity,acceptance and tolerance? Guess this teacher didn't get the memo. The clinical instructor failed this student a week after sending the student this email. She was kicked out of the Nursing program. AFter four months of a nauseating appeals process, the school has yet to decide if there was any discrimination or homophobia.

Since we've all worked hard all week, It's time to kick back, relax, forget about politics and enjoy a nice full glass of iced tea or Soda. Enjoy

Keyes v. Bowen, Obama, et.al. Superior Court of the State of California County of Sacramento March 26, 2009 (item #4 of the ORDER) 4. MOTION TO QUASH OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, AND 55 CALIFORNIA ELECTORS OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, FOR AN ORDER THAT THE DEPOSITION OF THE CUSTODIAN OF RECORDS OF OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE NOT BE TAKEN. Respondents President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and the 55 California ELectors named as respondents move for an order quashing the subpoena by petitioners directed to third party Occidental College demanding access to President Barack Obama’s “academic and housing...

I'm looking to buy a gun for protection and a riffle for hunting. I have handled guns but it has been a long time so I have become rather ignorant on what to have. So I'm asking the gun owners on FR to chime in and give advice on this and if possible some guide lines on what to pay for a good gun and riffle. Thanks

If Larry Sinclair’s book is to be believed, US president Barack Obama is a liar, a cocaine addict and a homosexual. America has been engulfed in crisis. All sections of the society feel it at every step. The numerous dismissals of workers are measured in hundreds of thousands a month. Companies are accumulating losses upon losses and analysts are pessimistic in a recovery so soon. Electoral memories fade away The empire that has been created for decades is on very feeble ground. Although he was welcomed as a saviour, President Obama has slowly begun changing his policies since his electoral...

By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.. You and...

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury that is the American public, it is my concern and intention to alert you to the actions of the 111TH congress and prove to you its criminal actions perpetrated under both the Color of Law and the Color of Office. The Constitution of The United States is the supreme law of the land. (Art 6) As such, it is imperative that the Constitution be referenced in this proof that our current congress has been acting criminally.

Jesse H. Merrell, who lives on Garfield Street Northwest, tells Inside the Beltway that a pair of deputy U.S. marshals paid him a visit last Friday after he had written a letter to U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson regarding President Obama's citizenship controversy.