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  • Is Costco actually restocking Dinesh D'Souza's "America" or is is a lie?

    07/22/2014 4:33:43 PM PDT · by Southflanknorthpawsis · 51 replies
    7-22-14 | Southflanknorthpawsis
    I cannot independently confirm the accuracy of this story but it comes from a well trusted friend. It is my wish that repeating it may cause someone with the means to investigate further to research. When an individual attempted to purchase Dinesh D'Souza's book "America" at a San Diego County Costco, the following scenario occurred. There were none on the shelf and she asked an employee if any were available. He pulled her aside and told her to please not reveal that he told her but that Costco was perpetuating a huge fraud on consumers. He further explained that the...
  • THEY’RE ALLOWED TO SHOOT CHILDREN ON THE STREET

    07/22/2014 12:37:34 AM PDT · by Rabin · 19 replies
    Andy, walking down a street in Santa Rosa. (the patrol car chirped, an officer came out shouting then shooting). Erick Gelhaus— fired 8 large hollow point slugs at 13-year-old Andy Lopez. One missed. DA Ravitch, released her exoneration explaining in appalling detail Andy's (how to buy a child drugg smear)... Jill's picked “drug & drink " expert review concerning (Eric)the shooter and his partner's BDA content have been omitted from Dr. Jones. The DA (office) paid Jones to review the (after action) lab results and (to) compare them to what was "known" about Eric and Andy's drug and alcohol use....
  • Vanity: To repeal every political and policy of the Obama Administration on EVERY issue!

    07/21/2014 7:33:23 PM PDT · by JSDude1 · 13 replies
    Vanity/JSDude1 | 07/21/2014 | JSDude1
    Vanity: It should be the policy goals of every elected Republican official (in the whole nation) to overturn/repeal every political and policy of the Obama Administration on EVERY issue! Not really a message, than a declaratory statement. Just wanted to REMIND everyone that WE DO NOT need to compromise with the Obama Administration in ANY way. We do not need to acquiesce to the idea that "this is the way it is" (in regard) to the "change" that Obama has instituted in this great nation. WE NEED TO REVERSE each and EVERY ONE of his actions, on EVERY ISSUE and...
  • On Twitter now: Help trend #VAsurge

    07/21/2014 8:16:30 PM PDT · by Squawk 8888 · 5 replies
    Twitter ^ | July 21, 2014 | Me
    There is a Twitter campaign on now to generate support for our veterans by tweeting messages with the hashtag #VAsurge. I'm calling on FReepers with Twitter accounts to help out by posting supportive messages with the #VAsurge hashtag.
  • Ukrainian Separatists or Putin's masked aggressors?

    07/21/2014 1:10:15 PM PDT · by Leo Carpathian · 1 replies
    self | 7/21/2014 | self
    It is sickening to see media calling “Ukrainian separatists” bunch of Russian masked military thugs executing Putin’s order to annex Ukrainian territory. When Yanukovych “thing” did not work out, Ukrainians froze at Maidan to put end to “joining Putin's great mother Russia”, Putin mobilized his army at Ukrainian border, took over Crimea and now is biting more pieces of Ukraine. Ukrainian people, even Russian speaking and especially Crimean Tatars do not want to be part of the Putin’s great Russian empire again or ever. Masked spetznatz and Russian military personnel with modern armaments, no markings, are not Ukrainian separatists!!!!!! If...
  • Paul Ryan's Proposed Budget Cuts

    07/20/2014 8:46:52 AM PDT · by dvan · 27 replies
    NA | NA | NA
    Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:24:12 -0700 Subject: RE: Budget Proposal This looks like a pretty healthy platform to start running on... In order to begin getting our country's spending under control, there has to be some elimination and take aways. Here's Paul Ryan's proposed cuts. PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS A List of Republican Budget Cuts Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list. These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. Read to the end. * Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings. * Save America 's Treasures...
  • FLASHBACK: Vladimir Putin's tough guy act just a 'shtick' says Barack Obama

    07/20/2014 9:37:21 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 29 replies
    US President Barack Obama said on Thursday that Vladimir Putin's bored, tough guy act was just a 'shtick' designed to boost his domestic political image. Obama and his Russian counterpart have become known for stilted photo ops during bilateral meetings at various global summits, in which they stare straight ahead and share little warmth or sympathetic body language.
  • (NEED HELP!) Advice needed from the FR Banglist/Lawyer Community

    07/19/2014 3:57:42 PM PDT · by Red in Blue PA · 103 replies
    Vanity
    Several years ago, we had a burglary and guns were stolen from our house. About a year ago, one of them turned up on a thug, who was reaching for it in his waistband and subsequently was tasered by the police before he was able to use it one them. In the end, the gun helped to put him away, but even with priors (including a shooting about 10 years back) he only received a sentence of 3 ½ to 7 years from our pathetic “justice” system. Fast forward to the present. I was informed that I could get my...
  • Crowd Fund Illegal Alien Buses to DC

    07/19/2014 12:06:12 PM PDT · by Mean Daddy · 20 replies
    Title says it all. Who has experience with crowd funding? Get a bunch of school buses and drop them off in D.C.
  • (Vanity) I'm a racist for condemning murders and cowards!

    07/19/2014 10:26:54 AM PDT · by Squawk 8888 · 38 replies
    Twitter ^ | July 19, 2014
    Twitter user @_shireenahmed_ has taken offence to one of the cartoons about the Gaze "soldiers" hiding behind women & children that I addressed to her & Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein). I captured a screenshot to ensure that it doesn't vanish into the Memory Hole:
  • A Question for Article V State Amendment Convention Opponents

    07/18/2014 12:50:57 PM PDT · by Jacquerie · 100 replies
    To Free Republic opponents of Article V, I put this question, “what infringement of our natural and constitutional rights, or other high crime against our republic, could compel you to support an Article V state amendment convention to propose amendments to our constitution?”
  • Why Do Liberals (Leftists) Support and Encourage Slavery? Vanity

    07/18/2014 7:05:44 AM PDT · by Chickensoup · 40 replies
    chickensoup | 7/18/14 | chickensoup
    Today I had a doctor's appointment. My doctor has always been on the leftist side of the tent. He was out there on how much he supports amnesty and what is happening on the border. He pointed out that this year there is a big different in the way the circus is being set up across from his offices. Many more “hardworking brown people” who are sending money home. No more of the toothless white meth-head addicts who try to break into his office every year. Better workers all round. He was smiling. So I asked him, why are you...
  • My response from Mayor Parker of Houston

    07/18/2014 4:47:29 AM PDT · by rfreedom4u · 27 replies
    rfreedom4u
    Dear Mr. (my name): There is a crisis brewing that disproportionately impacts border cities, putting a strain on their physical infrastructure. Sharing the physical burden of housing so many people relieves the immediate pressure on a handful of cities. We have a professional responsibility to assist other municipalities, just as we would in the aftermath of a natural disaster. There is a growing humanitarian need. We have a personal responsibility to assist human beings in distress. These are not undocumented workers flooding here to take low paying jobs. These are children, some as young as 2 or 3 years of...
  • (reprise) DFU SONG: Where Have All the Cowboys Gone (where has Ronald Reagan gone?)

    07/17/2014 7:57:17 PM PDT · by doug from upland · 6 replies
    FR ^ | orig 2009 | DFU
    We need this man now more than ever. WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWBOYS GONE - MIDI found here
  • VANITY - Question about Gun Statistics

    07/17/2014 7:33:35 AM PDT · by scouter · 34 replies
    That's what I'm looking for | 7/17/2014 | Scouter
    I went to the shooting range last night for the first time in about 2 years. Lot's of fun, and I have to admit, I did pretty well for being so out of practice. But talking with some folks, I heard something that I had not heard before, but they all agreed it was true. I'd like to know if anyone can cite a source for this, as I'd like to use it in a conversation with my sister, who is opposed to gun ownership. What I heard was that the U.S. has the 3rd highest rate of murder by...
  • The Andrea Shea King Show Letchworth & Taylor 9 p.m. EDT 7/16/2014 (Border Crisis)

    07/16/2014 5:42:16 PM PDT · by kristinn · 6 replies
    Andrea Shea King Show ^ | Wednesday, July 16, 2014 | Andrea Shea King
    Tonight --- Kristinn Taylor broke three HUGE immigration stories this week that were linked on the Drudge Report. His latest? He joins us tonight with details. Also... earlier today I participated in a telecon about the US House lawsuit against Barack Hussein Obama. On the telecom -- South Carolina Rep. Tom Rice and Constitutional Law expert David Rivkin who offered his expert opinion this morning to the House Rules Committee. The Hon. Elizabeth Letchworth, retired Secretary to the US Senate (Majority) joins us tonight to look into House speaker John Boehner's lawsuit to sue the president. Should be a good...
  • Police Chase in Stockton, CA Bank robbers with hostages,

    07/16/2014 3:38:46 PM PDT · by machogirl · 22 replies
    July 16, 2014 | me
    Gannett, can not source. Chase over. Possibly THREE dead and two needing ambulances. One of the hostages was reportedly a 12 year-old girl.
  • Memory lane ("Punish our enemies")

    07/16/2014 5:53:37 AM PDT · by elhombrelibre · 18 replies
    Obama speeches ^ | Various | Obama
    "Punish our enemies" to Latinos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riVzMzX4hiE Obama on bypassing Congress before the racist and aptly named Latino group "La Raza." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wD5Y88UWno
  • Obama Diminishes Grandmother's Accomplishments In Austin Speech

    07/15/2014 2:21:45 AM PDT · by BradyLS · 28 replies
    Whitehouse.gov Press Office ^ | July 15, 2014 | BradyLS
    I listened to part of the President's speech at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas, given last Thursday (July 10, 2014) on the radio as I drove to Lockhart. One part of his speech leapt out at me and I haven't heard or read of anyone commenting on this particular quote. "When I think about equal pay, I think about my grandmother working her way up at a bank with nothing but a high school education and becoming the vice president of the bank, but always being kind of passed over for the next stage by men who were less...
  • How May I Introduce an Idea to a Tea Party Representatives?

    07/14/2014 4:16:36 PM PDT · by MosesKnows · 26 replies
    7/14/2014 | MosesKnows
    How May I Introduce An Idea to the Tea Party Representatives? Free Republic is an amazing national resource that I think should be able to help direct me. How do I seek the opinion of a Tea Party Republican member of Congress? I have an idea for a legislative proposal that I believe would benefit the Tea Party Movement, the Republican Party, and the nation. I emailed Ted Cruz some time back and received a nice form letter suggesting a later response that never arrived. I have given my idea considerable thought and I of course realize that it may...