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As a joke, my brother used to hang a pair of panty hose over his fireplace before Christmas. He said all he wanted was for Santa to fill them. What they say about Santa checking the list twice must be true because every Christmas morning, although Jay's kids' stockings were overflowed, his poor pantyhose hung sadly empty. One year I decided to make his dream come true. I put on sunglasses and went in search of an inflatable love doll. They don't sell those things at Walmart. I had to go to an adult bookstore downtown. If you've never been...

Lower Merion fans at a high school basketball game, Tuesday, said some rather nasty things regarding host Upper Darby which brought a response from the Royals side which eventually escalated into some extraordinary ugly and anti-Semitic statements regarding LM, which has a large Jewish population. These ugly statements included things like "We'll write you letters when you're in Auschwitz". Now, this is not something that should be ignored but since Tuesday the dinosaur media has been tut-tutting over incident and the officials from both schools have been indulging in public hand-wringing and the Lower Merion parents have been calling for...

WASHINGTON — Not everyone thinks imitation is the best form of flattery. In fact, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando took such offense at a parody website aimed at unseating him that the freshman Democrat has asked that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder investigate the Lake County activist who started the anti-Grayson website “mycongressmanisnuts.com.” Specifically, Grayson accuses Republican activist Angie Langley of lying to federal elections. His four-page complaint highlights the fact that the Clermont resident lives outside his district, but that Langley still uses the term “my” in “mycongressmanisnuts.com.” “Ms. Langley has deliberately masqueraded as a constituent of mine,...

This is funny. Apparently this musician was on a United Airlines flight with his band and they man-handled his checked guitar and broke it. He went round and round with them for several months trying to get them to pay for the damage but they refused so he took matters into his own hands. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

On its Web site, GQ Magazine asks the burning question, "Has the Capital Gotten Cooler Under Obama?" The magazine says yes and no. But when it comes to Barack Obama and Co., you'll be relieved to know that the answer is a resounding YES!! In a slide show, we learn that Obama is "our best-dressed prez since JFK. When he goes tieless, Ahmadinejad should take notice." On Obama in jeans, "the loose fit seems presidential." Also lookin' good to GQ is Joe Biden: "The veep has terrific style. He deftly mixes colors and patterns with his shirts and ties, and...

For those that don't know about history ... here is a condensed version that will take about 2 minutes or less to read: Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers.. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundations of modern civilization and together were the...

StopeTaxes.com wishes the Internet a very happy 40th birthday! What started in a lab in UCLA in 1969 has transformed human civilization. The internet has changed the way we work, learn, communicate, conduct commerce, and live. One of the most significant developments in human history, it has facilitated tremondous prosperity, innovation, and is bringing change to even the most closed, cruel, and opaque regimes in the world. StopeTaxes.com is committed to preserving liberty online. Indeed, the internet is the last best example of a truly free market. However, efforts are afoot that will hinder all that has made the internet...

Time is not on Tiger Woods' side - anymore. Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer reversed course Friday and announced it is dumping Woods as pitchman in U.S. advertising campaigns for the foreseeable future. After initially standing by Woods and declaring his personal problems "not our business," the company's head honcho now says they will use actor Leonardo Di Caprio and other "brand ambassadors" instead of the disgraced golfer. "We recognize Tiger Woods as a great sportsman but we have to take account of the sensitivity of some consumers in relation to recent events," company CEO Jean-Christophe Babin told Swiss daily Le...

...is nothing more than a bunch of brainwashed, eco-Nazis attempting to lynch Western Civilization on a petard of tainted science.

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When Fox News executives went looking to replace Brit Hume last year, they had to find someone to take over for their franchise newsman, the staid and steady Washington hand whose arrival in 1996 had conferred instant legitimacy on the upstart network. But the network turned not to another Hume, not a traditional anchor-desk presence or deep-voiced TV vet, but to Bret Baier — sunny, serious, self-deprecating and approachable. Eight years ago, he was holding down the network’s bureau in Atlanta. Today, he steps before the camera every weekday to anchor Fox News’s “Special Report” one-hour news program. Count Hume...

Weekly Roundup - Living On Nothing Edition Category: Roundups | Comments(15) Did you hear about the guy that lives on nothing? No seriously, he lives on zero dollars a day. Meet Daniel Suelo, who lives in a cave outside Moab, Utah. Suelo has no mortgage, no car payment, no debt of any kind. He also has no home, no car, no television, and absolutely no “creature comforts.” But he does have a lot of creatures, as in the mice and bugs that scurry about the cave floor he’s called home for the last three years. To us, Suelo probably sounds...

Beauty is not so much in the eye of the beholder as in the measurements between the eyes, mouth and ears, US and Canadian researchers say. In four experiments aimed at finding "an ideal facial feature arrangement", US and Canadian researchers asked students to compare colour photographs of the same woman's face, in which the vertical distance between the eyes and mouth, and horizontal distance between the eyes, had been doctored using Photoshop. The features - eyes, mouth, nose, contour and hair - remained the same and a woman's face was only compared to her own, never to another's. Students...

My wife was listening to Glenn Beck’s radio program, this morning. She informs me that Glenn Beck says that the White House called his “red phone” yesterday at the end of his FOX News TV show. Evidently, the White House was upset that Glenn Beck interviewed Michael Goldfarb, author of the Offutt AFB closure threat report. In the interview, Goldfarb stood by his report. Glenn Beck, prefacing the story as a rumor, also stated that he confirmed this story with three sources. But, the White House vociferously denies the story.

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U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell retorts: "Here's the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush (to get the bill passed), they (Dems) want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader's conference room has even seen."

Sorry for the vanity folks, but I stumbled across this video last night. It's a couple years old, before Al Franken was shaming the state of Minnesota as a Senator. An excerpt from a public forum featuring he and Ann Coulter, I think this so perfectly encapsulates Franken's weaselly methods in his attempts to smear conservatives as "liars," that it deserved addressing. Please take a few minutes to watch. Then, take a minute to read the ACTUAL ARTICLE by Thomas Friedman in question, and come back for my commentary. Now, did you notice what Franken did there? He started in...

The soul of the city is coming off the practice field and headed toward the showers. They are a motley group, undrafted guys and late-round fliers, players cast off from other teams. Brees landed in town after an injury convinced the Chargers that his best days were behind him. "When we came here," he has said, "I was in the process of rebuilding, as well." Quarterback Drew Brees and the Saints' potent offense have produced a 13-0 record heading into their home game Saturday night against Dallas. Running back Mike Bell was out of football. So was cornerback Mike McKenzie,...

Hello my Freeper friends, My 88-year-old mom has been in the hospital since just before Thanksgiving, and is now in ICU. Turns out she had E. coli poisoning, which led to kidney failure, dialysis, and they're still trying to knock out the infection in her blood. I'm praying that she pulls through this. She's been moved to ICU, where she's getting better care. Her blood pressure is still low, and she's on O2. Please, friends, I ask that you lift her up in prayer for her healing. Thank you.