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CDC requires this for birds: Quarantine the bird for 30 days, at the owner's expense, in a USDA animal import centerExternal Web Site Icon (listed on the APHIS website). And here are the requirements for monkeys: http://www.cdc.gov/animalimportation/monkeys.html

To check for Ebola in airports, they are taking temperatures using forehead thermometers. It seems to me all someone would have to do is use a paper towel and put cool water on the forehead just before the temperature is taken.

We do most things in our lives out of habit. Each of us has various routines that outline our day, family and lives. This isn’t to say we shouldn’t step back now and then to consider change for the sake of improvement, for we should, yet just as the sun follows a predictable yearly path, man has a natural tendency to favor the familiar and regular. So, out of habit I will vote in the mid-term election. Aside from local and state officers, my representative Steve Southerland (FL-2) is in a tight race against a legacy candidate, the daughter of...

Last year I took an Ethics class at school. Our professor gave us a lecture about the pros and cons of Capitalism. And at the end of the lecture, he asked us if we could define "crony capitalism". We all drew a blank. We'd all heard the phrase, but we didn't quite understand it. So he broke it down to us in very simplistic terms: "Let's sat that you own a cow. And your neighbor owns one hundred cows. But he's so greedy that he wants your cow, too. So he bribes corrupt politicians to pass laws that will take...

When I was growing up, my mother made me write and send Thank You notes to each and every person who ever gave me a gift—Christmas gifts, birthday gifts, graduation gifts, you name it. It’s a habit I carried into adulthood. When my wife and I were married, we had Thank You cards in the mail within a week of the occasion. We have been blessed with a 17-year-old son. Ever since he’s been old enough to grasp a pen, he has been sending out Thank You cards for every gift received on every occasion. It’s only right and proper....

Another Freeper just shared the information to this FaceBook Page of the OK beheader. I thought it's interesting and informative enough that should have its thread of its own. Some of the comments are statements like It's somewhat interesting to see his conversion to ISLAM. About a year ago his postings were relatively normal, like excited about his new job, about the SuperBowl, and typical jive talk stuff." His rantings become insane as soon as he obviously became Muslim. " Dnt yall knw why the Eastern part of the world hates Amerika? Everything God says don't do Amerika does. 1.Don't...

President Obama is pledging new U.S. help for other nations struggling to address global warming. In your opinion, how big of a problem is climate change?

Tennesseeans, this is what I wrote for my fellow parishioners, making the case that we ought to consider leaving the GOVERNOR line blank, and just voting Pro-Life YesOn1. Your comments, please? I personally am convinced that the governor's election means nada, since Haslam is going to win unless Christ comes again, or a supercaldera blows somewhere to the West of Memphis and destroys our beloved RockyTop altogether. So the best thing we can do --- owing to math generated by the "dual majority" or "supermajority" mechanism of amending the Constitution --- is to skip the governor race and boost...

This article has an interesting account from the Roman Empire, that will enable you to understand what will happen to America when the gay agenda seizes 100 control: http://www.fgfbooks.com/Turner-Craig/2013/Turner130323.html ".....But our most detailed images of homosexual marriages come from the descriptions of Roman emperors. Nero, a depraved first-century emperor, married at least two men. He wed Pythagoras in a formal same-sex wedding by first putting on a bridal veil that made Nero the "bride" and Pythagoras the "groom." Every symbol of a classical marriage was present at this ceremony: a dowry, marriage bed, torches, and witnesses. Tacitus, the great Roman...

The Postal Services created a stamp with a picture of President Obama on it. The Postal Service noticed that the stamp was not sticking to envelopes. This enraged the President, who demanded a full investigation. After a month of testing and $1.73 million in congressional spending, a special Presidential commission presented the following findings: 1.The stamp is in perfect order. 2. There is nothing wrong with the glue. 3. People are spitting on the wrong side.

FReep This Poll! Do You Think It’s OK for Parents to Spank Their Children? YES NO Note: Go to the U-T San Diego link provided. On the U-T San Diego homepage scroll down a bit until you see the poll in the center column. Vote your choice.

So yeah, I posted lame "topics" but, y'all love me, so here it is. cracked my back molar, dentist put a temp on it, crushed the lil plastic thing yesterday, pretty dentist put the old aluminium one on until the permanent comes from Vietnam or wherever. Thing is, it hurts, like it's bare and for the 1st time in my life my stomach hurts. Okay, so I whine but, could be worse, right? I mean, I'm a single, 51 year old man. If were pregnant and walking the streets of Somalia, I don't think, maybe, they would understand. I feel...

Americans have to face the painful reality that Arabs are, when judged by 21st century Western Standards, a crazy people. This is not meant as an insult. Early this year, the Iraqi parliament proposed a law that would permit men to marry 9 year old girls. The law had the support of a majority of parliament. The law would also permit men to beat up and rape their wives, and prevent women from leaving the house without the permission of the husband. These SOBS are supposed to be the allies of America in the fight against ISIS. The Shia regime...

It's not over in Mississippi. The MS Supreme Court will hear Chris McDaniel's case. In case you missed this article: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3202957/posts

Hello. Hello!. Hello!!! HELLO!!!!!! WHERE THE HELL IS THE NATIONWIDE OUTRAGE THAT THE pRESIDENT IS SENDING 3,000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO WEST AFRICA TO FIGHT EBOLA? When do we get to the last straw? I was there a long time ago, but is this newest outrageous outrage not enough to waken a sleeping giant to the destruction of our country that is being perpetrated from the Oval Office? The healthcare system, the VA system, the IRS, Fast and Furious, Race Baiting Justice Department, flooding the nation with illegal aliens who are spreading disease throughout the country, using the military as an...

To the Editor: The United States is the land of the free and the home of the brave. Proud Americans are very much aware of the countless sacrifices so many brave patriots have made for their country. For more than two centuries, selfless citizens have devoted their efforts to keeping this country the best civilization humankind has ever known. The USA is the home of the brave. But is the United States of America the land of the free? Is it the land of the free when the government regulates the size of your soft drink? When the government taxes...

Yesterday I passed through Upstate South Carolina. Spartanburg is a very friendly, smaller city. It is not at all unusual to strike up a conversation with an absolute stranger in this generally congenial environment. While refueling the car, I was approached by a 50ish black gentleman who commented that the United States was becoming Mexico. He said Mexican workers were everywhere and that he was an independent contractor struggling to survive. He said he likes Mexican people and they are hard workers, but they were making it impossible to earn a living. Said he worked hard all his life, and...

I haven't subscribed to cable TV for many years, relying instead on several online streaming and downloading services for the entertainment and news programs I'm interested in. One of those services was C-Span's website, but earlier this summer C-Span restricted live-streaming for non-government programming to those with a cable TV subscription (which includes C-Span in its package). This post is for a limited audience, but I'd speculate that there's a few more people on FR who might be interested to know that the audio of the 7am - 10AM EST program Washington Journal still streams live on the Internet each...

The conservative publication, Newsmax, quotes a former CIA agent saying that some ISIS militants have already entered the United States from Mexico: http://www.newsmax.com/US/ISIS-border-threat-mexico/2014/09/02/id/592180/ Conservatives have to deal with the painful reality, that America is ruled by corrupt corporate elites, who care more about the profits that they make selling stuff to the 1.5 billion Muslims, than they care about American lives. If ISIS were to begin beheading people in America, the corporate elites who rule the country would do absolutely nothing, if there is a chance that it may reduce profits made in the Muslim world. Already, the corporate elites...

I think this is a classic example of what happens when a law enforcement agency isn't trained or prepared for an unexpected or exceptionally large event. Ferguson is a city of 21,000 people. Its police department has 52 sworn officers. Only three are black, when about 68% of the city's population is black. This imbalance affects the current situation tangentially, but I doubt that it's a problem that the City of Ferguson is unaware of or that they haven't tried to fix it. Anytime a white police officer kills or seriously injures a minority citizen in a predominately minority community,...