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Approximately 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs went extinct, 75% of the planet's many species went with them. It was the world's fifth, and most recent, mass extinction event. Now, according to a July 25 review in the journal Science, the Earth seems to be at the cusp of a sixth mass extinction. Only this time, an asteroid is not to blame. We are. "Human impacts on animal biodiversity are an under-recognized form of global environmental change," the team of ecologists and biologists warn in Science. "Among terrestrial vertebrates, 322 species have become extinct since 1500, and populations of...

Since 1986, the law of the land allows ANYONE that is here to compete for YOUR job and being a citizen has ZERO benefits. If a foreigner gets a work visa, or some other visa, or is granted refugee status, etc. they can compete against you for jobs. And employers are obligated to hire them. From the EEOC website.Citizenship Discrimination & Workplace LawsThe Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) makes it illegal for an employer to discriminate with respect to hiring, firing, or recruitment or referral for a fee, based upon an individual's citizenship or immigration status. The...

Having ream trouble supporting an alcoholic Friend. He's been in Hollywood business for years and literally screwed up his life. He's spent most of the last twenty years in jail for his stupid behavior. Likes to promise people a good time, dinner and drinks but, consistently leaves people hanging with the check. If he's not doing that, then he's walking into restaurants, bars and hotels, then getting busted for defrauding an inn keeper. There are drunks, lousy drunks and terrible drunks. Of course, he has to be a terrible drunk. Alters his mind and he gets verbally combative, aggressive or...

Dinesh D'Souza book is No. 1 on BookScan this week, far outdistancing Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, 25,714 to 17,785. In spite of those numbers, New York Times list again left Dinesh's book at No. 2 on the list that just released two minutes ago. Completely rigged. Last week was close enough to give benefit of the doubt. This week is a complete joke.

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...

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: 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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Title says it all. Who has experience with crowd funding? Get a bunch of school buses and drop them off in D.C.

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:

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?”

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...

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...

We need this man now more than ever. WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWBOYS GONE - MIDI found here

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...

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...

Gannett, can not source. Chase over. Possibly THREE dead and two needing ambulances. One of the hostages was reportedly a 12 year-old girl.

"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

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 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...

How Does Cutting Taxes Increase Cost? Did Bush tax cuts cost the U.S. economy $6.6 trillion?I paid little attention to this headline on Yahoo Finance the other day because it was not a sensible question. Later, it came up in a different venue and I discovered there are people who believe that cutting taxes increase cost. I’ll leave it up to you to discover who they are. Only spending can add cost. “We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much”

I don't get it. Why isn't this Mexico's job? It's Mexico that allowed these kids through their southern border. I get that the Obama administration wants to destroy our nation by getting rid of our border and importing future Democrat voters. But can someone please explain why no conservatives, or even RINOs, are taking the position that this is Mexico's problem, and demanding that it absorb this population which at least shares with them a common language (for the most part)? And why isn't the United States demanding money from Mexico and every Central American country of origin to pay...

I was watching a segment on Fox about the current Hamas rocket attack on Israel. Evidently, hundreds of rockets have been launched in the past few days. Three questions occured to me. One, where did all these rockets come from (who manufactured them)? Two, who paid for these rockets? Three, how did these rockets get into Gaza? Were they smuggled in from Egypt?

Yesterday I called my Congressman to inquire if illegal aliens were being shipped into South Carolina.

Illegal immigration will add 100 million people to the US population by 2035, with the population rising to 438 million by 2050. The US continues to take in 1.1 million legal immigrants yearly, and that's not even counting the illegals. If we continue on this path, it's like doubeling the size of America's most populated cities, with New York going from 8 milliom to 16 million. Chicago going from 6 to 12 million. Do you see jobs, water, food, housing for all of these people? SECURE THE BORDER!

A timeless theme for our time. Jesus threw out the money changers out of the Temple.

While it's true that it's difficult to defeat incumbents, the Republican Party over the last 30 years has depended on OPEN seats. They have defeated very few incumbent democrats. But we're supposed to listen to their advice on who should take on Hagan and Landrieu and Warner and Shaheen and Merkely and Franken, etc!

Being a relatively recent "newbie" to FR, I hope it's ok to do this. This 8 minute video was posted yesterday by another FReeper. Just want to make sure everybody has a chance to see it. Video: McDaniel Campaign Announces Challenge to MS Election, Predicts Victory

Muslims and Democrats and Republicans I believe that the Muslim community is responsible to withhold support of the most radical members of their religion. I believe that the Liberal community is responsible to withhold support of the most progressive Democrats. I believe the Conservative community is responsible to withhold support of the more corrupted Republicans. The Tea Party Movement accepted Conservative responsibility by withholding their support of corrupted Republicans and taking steps to replace corrupted Republicans. Why can’t Liberals take action to remove corrupted Democrats? Perhaps they support the corruption. Why can’t Muslims take action to remove radical Muslims? Perhaps...

I’m tired of hearing the nonsense that the Republican Party has been taking over by the far right, and that the Democratic Party is the “moderate” party. It is simply not true. The Democratic Party is the party that has changed, not Conservatives. God, Liberty, defense spending, and patriotism is all in JFK's inauguration speech. Today's Democrats don't talk this way. My point is I miss moderate Democrats. --------- And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe-the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the...

OSLO (Reuters) - The baseline for "normal" weather used by everyone from farmers to governments to plan ahead needs to be updated more frequently to account for the big shifts caused by global warming, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday. The WMO's Commission for Climatology believes rising temperatures and more heatwaves and heavy rains mean the existing baseline, based on the climate averages of 1961-90, is out of date as a guide, the WMO said in a statement. "For water resources, agriculture and energy, the old averages no longer reflect the current realities," Omar Baddour, head of the...

In today's episode of "Obama On The Loose", he drinks a beer and plays pool...

Freep this poll: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/poll-should-congress-pass-universal-background-checks-gun-purchases-0

Media is lying to us again! Unaccompanied minors from non-contiguous countries are NOT permitted to stay under the a law signed by President Bush to prevent Sex Trafficking! The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 was intended to prevent children involved in the sex trade from being deported back to their pimps.... It passed by unanimous vote of the congress for a noble purpose... In no way it is intended as a loophole for Obama to act as Coyote-in-Chief & deliver 50,000 unaccompanied Central American Children & 300,000 ADULTS to our door steps! Google it here: William...

Called Grand Prairie, TX, local govt. about their decision to house 2000 illegal immigrants, and I talked to the secretary Lydia and she said that the Fed govt. ordered that Grand Prairie ISD take them in, and then I asked her why doesn't Grand Prairie invoke the 10th amendment and she hung up on me. I called many more times and got the runaround and finally talked to Grand Prairie city Manager Tom Hart, and asked him him his political affiliation and then he hung up on me.

States are now releasing their preliminary 2015 Obamacare premiums, which means price hikes could become another negative talking point right before the midterm elections. The difference between now and previous moments of bad health care PR is that Democrats insist they're getting ahead of it this time. But even then, there are a number of other issues coming up: the left's increasing aversion to the employer mandate, questions about how young and healthy this year's enrollees are and, as always, whether the Affordable Care Act is actually affordable. As Politico noted Monday, the White House's "internal health care enrollment outreach...

One thing that normally comes up in elections is whether the candidate can speak another language. W could speak some Spanish, and he gave some speeches in Spanish. Obama went to madrass' in Indonesia. I'd wager that he may not have learned Islam from English speakers. Can he communicate in Farsi or Arabic? Anybody know that?

Unaccompanied illegal alien minors are flooding over our borders. The soon will flood our Hospitals, Schools and to eventually overwhelm our Social Support Systems as intended. The Alinsky method of creating a crisis then solving it with a socialist method is in full force here. Soon we will have unaccompanied minors from around the world as this flood becomes a tsunami. The solution is simply not to accept unaccompanied minors under the age of 18 at our borders. Hold illegal alien minors, who do not come through our checkpoints close to the borders. Many eventually will want to return home....

Obama is using the Federal government to transport children all over this country. Our elected officials are being denied any access to the children. It looks like they are dropping the illegal adults off all over the country to be homeless on our streets, but what about the children? We don't know if the children (and adults) have communicable diseases. We don't know who the government is handing the children off to. Are the children going to family members or child traffickers. Who decides who are family members, since most of the families are illegals we don't have records on...

We the People plead with the Federal Courts to stop the ongoing criminal conduct of the Obama Administration. The Federal Courts have acted in the past, when Congress could not act, or would not act, to protect the civil rights and safety of Americans.

OK -- I just saw the movie "America." Needless to say, I think all conservatives should see it. But we need to do more than preach to the choir. Because this movie not only refutes the 30-year libel and slander of our great nation by the Zinn/Alinsky left, but it also shines the spotlight on Hillary's and Obama's efforts to destroy our nation, by NAME -- all the while presenting a powerful positive message about who we are and what it really means to be an American. So I think we need to put this important film in the face...

My daughter's mom saw this movie today in Metrowest Boston. She told me the theater was only about half full (5:30pm show), but here is what she texted me about it: "You have to see it!! It will give u hope. Everyone cheered in the end, and I can't stop crying."

In Lieu of actually Honoring Our Nations Heritage the hacks at google have chosen to honor Google on this Independance Day!

I did not realize or had forgotten that USA Today articles could not be posted. That is why my search turned up no results. But I wanted to point out that when a liberal rag like this publishes unfavorable polls about Obama, you know he is in trouble. A Quinnipiac University Poll, named Obama the worst president since World War II. Most people think the nation would be better off if Romney had won.

With Dallas County Dem leaders Clay Jenkins and Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings doing Obama's bidding in bringing in a new underclass of illegal immigrants for total political reasons, Dallas should not be the 2016 GOP convention site. Cleveland, the other contender stinks also, but there is a solution. Have the convention in Jerry world in Arlington(Tarrant County).

I just caught the tale end of Rush's program and he mentioned the pastor who alleges the Cochran campaign paid blacks to vote in the MS runoff. Said he will have audio on tomorrow's show.