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Van Der Sloot guilty. His friend John has confessed and led FBI to the body. Gabe, undercover for 5 years, got a confession from John, notified the FBI - after Aruba authorities refused to act - body is being removed now.

Notorious fraudster William Rivers Pitt has posted yet another false "scoop" at the Democratic Underground. No, nothing yet about Karl Rove being indicted. That was guaranteed in his May 2006 "scoop" and we are still waiting 24 business hours for this mythical event to materialize. This time around Pitt posted a "scoop" about TurboTax supposedly being hacked. One little problem; it wasn't true. And a TurboTax spokesperson even posted on Pitt's thread about the truth of the matter due to the misinformation spread on the Web by Pitt's veracity challenged "scoop." One fringe benefit is that Pitt has once again...

While you wait 24 business hours for Karl Rove to be indicted and frogwalked across the White House lawn, WILLIAM RIVERS PITT has another HOT HOT HOT scoop. This time it is that TurboTax was hacked. Of course we know this must be true because of Pitt's fantastic track record for veracity. Unfortunately, after Pitt delivered his big SCOOP came the big "OOPS" which you can discern in the thread title which not only has a regular UPDATE but also a NEWER UPDATE, "Scary stuff" UPDATE: the hack was TurboTax (NEWER UPDATE). After Pitt's FALSE "scoop" caused panicr among...

<p>Freepers, get the word out loud and wide. The Vancouver Sun "journalist" Chris Parry that defamed Jim Robinson and FreeRepublic is none other than radical left blogger "Hollywoodoz" at the Daily Kos. In addition to writting for the Vancouver Sun, Chris is a frustrated and failed internet entrepreneur, having launched many websites and blogs, all of which have virtually no traffic, following, or success. Chris also writes movie reviews, though these are pretty lame.</p>

WASHINGTON - Once her son is off to school, Laura Mansfield settles in at her dining room table with her laptop and begins trolling Arabic-language message boards and chat rooms popular with jihadists. Fluent in Arabic, the self-employed terror analyst often hacks into the sites, translates the material, puts it together and sends her analysis via a subscription service to intelligence agencies, law enforcement and academics. Occasionally she comes across a gem, such as when she found a recent Osama bin Laden video — before al-Qaida had announced it. "I realized, oh my gosh, I'm sitting here, I'm a fat...

It should come as no surprise if the Bush Administration undertakes a preepmtive war against Iran sometime before the November election...

MIDI - DUKE OF EARL Duped, duped, duped...Dan was duped, duped, duped And he had stepped right into a great big pile of dog poop It was his scoop, scoop, scoop...but he was duped, duped, duped And he had stepped right into a great big pile of dog poop As he looks at his career, he has to wonder what he's been doing Each day his critics mock him...trouble at Black Rock is brewing Oh, but heeeeeeee's sure he got the story...oh, yeah...FOX News can't beat him now But poor Dan has been duped...oh, no, no, no It's okay...he...

Court to hear the scoop on dog's poop Associated Press INDIO, Calif. - A blind couple is headed to court to resolve a dispute with their homeowner association about droppings left in the street by their guide dogs. Dennis and Shirley Bartlett are aware of the pooper-scooper rules for their Desert Grove homeowner association, but said they sometimes miss droppings left by their dogs. "You can't get everything all the time," Dennis Bartlett said. The Bartletts filed a small claims suit against former association president Delmar Pierce, alleging harassment and prohibiting their guide dogs from doing what they were trained...

I thought it would be nice to keep track of threads where FR has scooped Old Media. Please feel free to add or correct: [AP SCOOP] Space Shuttle Columbia Will Be Visible In San Francisco Area (6AM Pacific)nasa Posted on 02/01/2003 7:38:08 AM CST by leadpenny   President Bush is eating in my undisclosed location (UPDATE: Undisclosed location is IRAQ!)Eyes on ^ | 271830(C)NOV03 | ChiefKujo Posted on 11/27/2003 9:37:26 AM CST by ChiefKujo   Email: Saddam may have been captured [Has now been confirmed by DNA testing]Unconfirmed source - Posted on 12/14/2003 4:01:05 AM CST by Gigantor   Al...

Human Events reports that the DNC and the Kerry campaign are writing to television stations, stating that the Swift Boat ads is is "false" and "libelous" and that "your station may not responsibly air this advertisement." At least one of their points in the letter is an obvious lie: "The advertisement contains statements by men who purport to have served on Senator John Kerry's SWIFT [sic] boat in Vietnam and one statement by a man pretending to be the doctor who treated Senator Kerry for one of his injuries." Horsepucky. Every vet in the ad says, "I served with John...

NEW YORK -- It was an airplane mechanic, not a reporter, who got the scoop on John Kerry's choice of John Edwards to be his running mate. Bryan Smith of U.S. Airways was riding through a hangar in Pittsburgh Monday night where Kerry's 757 was waiting for a trip to Indianapolis the next day. Smith was told the hangar was off limits. But he says some of the windows were left open. When he looked inside, he saw "Edwards" decals being attached to the plane's fuselage, then quickly covered with brown paper and masking tape. When Smith got home that...

NEW YORK -- It was an airplane mechanic, not a reporter, who got the scoop on John Kerry's choice of John Edwards to be his running mate. Bryan Smith of U.S. Airways was riding through a hangar in Pittsburgh Monday night where Kerry's 757 was waiting for a trip to Indianapolis the next day. Smith was told the hangar was off limits. But he says some of the windows were left open. When he looked inside, he saw "Edwards" decals being attached to the plane's fuselage, then quickly covered with brown paper and masking tape. When Smith got home that...

FR does it again:Here are selected articles from a google search on the quake in Japan.I converted all the times to EDT of the articles I found.It would appear that FR once again scooped AP, UP, VOA, CNN by at least 40 mins. This is the FR post, note the time:8.0 Earthquake in JapanEDIS | 9/25/03 | EDISPosted on 09/25/2003 4:17 PM edt  by BlownChevelle   Major Quake Hits Japan North Island of HokkaidoThu September 25, 2003 04:57 PM ET UP     Magnitude 8 Earthquake Strikes Northern JapanVOA News25 Sep 2003,4:59 edt     Strong Earthquake Rattles Northern Japan Thursday...

Damn, I hate it when I've been had and I've been had big time. In 1982, while I was working for Congressman Manuel Lujan of New Mexico, a man came up to a me during a gathering in Albuquerque and introduced himself as Terrance J. Wilkinson. He said he was a security consultant and gave me a business card with his name and just a Los Angeles phone number. A few weeks later, he called my Washington office and asked to meet for lunch. He seemed to know a lot about the nuclear labs in New Mexico and said he...

<p>Someone leaked the Constitution.</p> <p>In the spring of 1787, James Madison and other delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia swore an oath of secrecy, pledging not to immediately divulge the contents of the new framework for the young nation.</p>

Mar 10, 2003 Test of 'massive' Air Force Bomb Set for Tuesday at Eglin The Associated Press EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) - A conventional bomb so big that it's first name is "massive" is set to be tested for the first time at this Florida Panhandle base Tuesday. Air Force officials Monday warned residents of communities surrounding the western half Eglin's 724-square-mile military reservation to be prepared to hear an explosion that sounds like thunder or a slamming door between noon and 5 p.m. CST although the blast will be miles away. The loudness of the 21,000-pound "massive...

<p>Space Shuttle Columbia is in a decent for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will pass over the San Francisco Area around 6:00 AM Pacific Time. Route will take the Shuttle over Las Vegas, Flagstaff, etc. NASA has still not decided which runway will be used. Landing will be at 9:16 AM Eastern.</p>