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Russian President Vladimir Putin claims he has earned less than $1 million during the past six years as president, according to financial documents published Tuesday by Russia's election authority. The documents from the Central Election Commission (CEC) show Putin reported making 67.6 million rubles, which is approximately $753,000, between 2018 and 2024. Along with his salary as president, this figure includes income from bank deposits, a military pension and money made from property sales. -snip- According to information Putin provided to the CEC, he has savings of 54.5 million rubles ($606,000) spread across 10 different bank accounts and owns a...

How is Biden prepping. Is he hitting the bag? Is he getting ready for the drug regimen Is he practicing listening to his handler and working on his puppet string reactions? Is he working on his Joe Biden patented shtick of feigned moral outrage at any challenge? Mr. Dog Faced Pony Soldier is TOAST regardless. Chris Wallace needs a good ass kicking too!

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A man from Dryden and another from Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., have been fined a total of $2,500 after the Ministry of Natural Resources received complaints about boaters harassing a cow moose. Court heard that Dryden District conservation officers responded to public complaints on July 29 of people harassing a moose with their boat in Outlet Bay on Eagle Lake west of the city. Several witnesses provided evidence to the officers, including a video showing a boat circling a swimming moose.

...Romney keeps his focus simple: fix the economy. But others are fixated on something else: his faith. SNIP Some call it a cult... Yet Mormons call themselves Christians, which raises eyebrows, especially within evangelical circles. Shawn McCraney is a former Mormon who now hosts a show called, 'Heart of the Matter," where he witnesses to Mormons in Salt Lake City. "...I didn't know the Lord and that led me to an internal angst." "What happened was I came to realize that there was nothing I could do to get myself right before God -- where with Mormonism...it's you have to...

Brand new meat thermometer used for the first time today in a 350 F oven.

Won't that make Obama a murderer? A war criminal, just like Bush?

A complete list of things caused by global warming

It was exactly one year ago today that I first joined Freerepublic! It's been a great year. I love this site, we talk about everything, disagreements are usually kept polite and civil, and I really feel a sense of friendship among my fellow Freepers. Thanks for everything, you guys, I just hope my future years here go as well as this first one did!

In this war freedom should come first not after! In New Hampshire the Motto is Live free or Die! I don't need Bush spying on law abiding americans and taking our freedoms. Anyone who surrenders a square inch of freedom to the government in the name of saftey is a traitor and should be treated like one! Let the Bush Fashists all drop dead! Filthy Commys! LET FREEDOM RING!

Think about it. Can a woman safely scale Everest while fretting whether any of her hair is visible? Can she do so while obsessing about the legs or arms showing (both of which remain taboo in the Muslim community, regardless of the weather or circumstances)? Think somebody can climb a mountain wearing a shalwar kamees, much less a jilbab? Wait, it gets worse. What if there is a man beneath her on the trail? Is she not dishonored by this compromising position? And won’t that sight risk causing fitnah and fatality on the mountainside? (I’m reminded of the fretting of...

I sorry to take up space on here. I am working on a paper on media bias and people on here were helpful enough to help me find a book on it. In my introduction I am trying to come up with a succint definition of conservatism. Any ideas?

Well, it is nice to find out early on in my Free Republic experience that certain individuals would claim a pious love of being a "Real Conservative" yet be more than abrupt in acts of censorship. I have severe reservations about anyone who would join this site then commit such an un-american violation of an individuals rights to express ideas or beliefs. I

just posted on drudge, is murdock a liberal/socialist what does this mean?!!!! socialism at fox now to take over I suppose.... oh well we couldn't even have one objective television newscast.......

The King made a royal visit to Wisconsin last week, and as is common when monarchs travel, individual liberties were suspended. King George Bush's bus trip across western Wisconsin closed schools and roads, prevented residents from moving freely in their own communities, and prevented citizens from exercising their free speech rights. All in all, it was a typical George W. Bush visit. But there's a slight twist. People in western Wisconsin, who hold to the refreshingly naive notion that they live in a republic as opposed to an imperial realm, are objecting. "There's a pattern of harassment of free speech...

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A 4 judge committee at the Harvard University School of Medicine has determined that John Kerry is the most prolific liar in the history of the United States. Kerry, when informed of the study, said,"Harvard is jealous because I went to Yale.I could have gone to Harvard on a full scholarship....well I wasn't offered a scholarship, but I was accepted...welll I wasn't formally accepted, but I was high on the waiting list....uh,come to think of it, I am not sure I ever applied to Harvard...Do you know I was in Viet Nam"??

..... at least I THINK i did. I got a phone call the other day. It was from a woman who was reading from a script. She was soliciting contributions for the Republican Party. She had an Indian (I think) accent, and when I asked here if she was with the RNC, she said she wasn't. She said her organization helps elect Republican candidates around the country. I asked her where she was located, and she said outside of DC in Virginia. I was skeptical, so I asked her what time it was in Virginia. She did not know. I...

When small charities have big dreams about fund-raising, they often set their sights on the stars -- Hollywood stars. The Evanston-based charity consulting firm, Alford Group, advises them to c'mon back to earth. Celebs, even for good causes, "usually don't come for free,'' says Alford vice president Greg Simoncini. Indeed they don't.

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