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I am noticing folks posting their theories now on "the guy". Here is my theory. I guess I am obliged to give obligatory “I don’t know, but here’s my guess” yadda. Ok, I don’t know, but here’s my guess. This guy’s father was a notorious freak on the FBI Most Wanted list and his dad’s face appeared on such FBI postings in Post Offices when I was a teen, in fact I seem to recall his face along with the various other such posting including the Zodiac. This father of the freak was declared a freak, a certified psychopath, by...

This coming Sunday at every house of religious worship and Sports Event and Sports Cafe/Bars across the entire USA, the American people should join together and sing out "God Bless America" in prayer, honor, respect, love, and remembrance of those innocent Americans, killed, slaughtered, wounded and injured, by an insane, nutcase, whose heart and soul where filled with hate of the American people and the American nation. At Sporting events, after the national anthem, the "Star Spangled Banner" is played, it (God Bless America) should be immediately sung by all, following the anthem. Forget the NFL, it is dead-on-arrival, no...

Very simple: “How did this shooter get to spend over 1 hour shooting at ducks in a pond while nobody was prepared to take him down!” That is the real question! The Hotels were more scared of lawsuits than having their top paying “rollers” he hustled out of their cocaine beds while people died. So much very wrong here. So disgraced to see the police patting their backs, along with politicians and firemen letting their guard down on a Sunday night! 79 minutes of terror and the only reason I’m writing here is because I thought the SWAT Team made...

Has anyone seen the new Star Trek series ("Discovery")? How would you rate it?

My assumptions:(1) The shooter's location should have been immediately apparent to LEOs.(2) The volume of shooting and the mass casualties should have given LEOs an extreme sense of both importance and urgency.A 72-minute response-time does not correlate with either (1) or (2).In my absence of information, it smacks of LEO commanders carefully planning a tactical approach, getting all the details right before proceeding, when in hindsight what was needed was a quick rush of the door--in seven minutes, not seventy-two. What am I missing?

About twenty minutes ago, a caller to the Rush Limbaugh show made a great point. It clearly defines the FBI in October of 2017. Not even 12 hours after the mass shooting in Las Vegas, the FBI has determined that the shooter was not involved with ISIS. This contrast their 12 month investigations into Donald Trump, and whether he had a relationship with Russia's leadership, that cost Clinton the election. They still can't state that Trump didn't have a connection to Russia, that cost Clinton the election. In response Rush corrected the caller mildly, saying that it isn't the FBI...

I wanted to design a table-top war-game for the current fight against the NFL. But alas, I could not make it work in the interface that FR offers. It will not work without a collaboration chat applet and the ability to choose teams. More importantly, FR doesn’t operationally own the ground troops and capability. Without that….there is no game. I tried writing it with FR heavily influencing events, but that is just a bridge too far. But to hasten the destruction of the NFL, I didn’t want to NOT post the war-game (like my double negative?). Some of the readers...

I regularly watch PGA golf tournaments. The President's Cup is a U.S. golf tournament organized by the PGA (Professional Golf Association) in 1994. The tournament pits a U.S. team against an international team drawn from players around the world. Each year it has an honorary chairman which is always a former or sitting U.S. President or a foreign leader (depending on which team last held the tournament cup). This year President Trump was the honorary chairman (Obama held the title twice - 2009 and 2013). This year's President's Cup tournament was won by the American team. PGA tournaments are usually...

The mere phrase "politically correct" has been gradually accepted into our lexicon for decades now. It by definition means anyone who disagrees is INCORRECT, and POLITICALLY so. But most of us use this term, myself included, but no more. It assumes that we are wrong ("not PC") and they are right ("PC"). They make the rules, move the goal posts, and normal Americans are expected to run an unwinnable gauntlet to keep up in order to be "PC". I think we need to stop using this term; the left created it and have made us see it as normal and...

San Juan, Mayor makes a fool out of herself saying Trump wants to kill San Juan residents. Without further comment, this woman better come to terms with the fact that POTUS, Donald J. Trump is the best friend in the world that Puerto Ricans have. I simply state the following, "ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THEN WORDS"!!! And POTUS, Trump is doing everything possible in conjunction with the Governor of PR, trying to get this devastating "act of nature attack" under control. Fact is: San Juan, who is led by this incompetent, political, Mayor had no firm or positive action plans in...

"The Man Without A Country", a short story, written by Edward Everett Hale, in 1863, as the Civil War was raging It is about an Army officer that has committed treason during the Revolutionary War, and has shouted out, before sentencing after being convicted, that he wishes, no longer, to hear any mention of the United States of America. He gets his wish as the judge sentences him to life in prison to be served aboard only USA, navy ships that never touch the shores of the USA. He comes to love the USA...but no one will talk to him...

One of My best Air Force friends who lives next to the Air Force Academy just texted there is an active shooter at the AFA Prep School. This is where the racist postings occurred a couple of days ago.

What the heck has happened to I HEART RADIO, a hub of conservative talk radio? I used to listen a lot, but now my local AM talk station, in southern Geogia no less, has been repeatedly playing an add for a podcast audiobook/audio drama called "Alice Isn't Dead", about a lesbian truck driver searching for her missing "wife" [sic]. How big is the butch dyke audio drama podcast niche that a deep south station in a military town is compelled to run that ad, and constantly? I can barely tolerate the constantly repeat airing of the same "This year in...

NFL had better get its act together. There is nothing to discuss. The deadbeat NFL players, "Hate America" "Lock your arms, together" has failed miserably. Packers, Q/B, Aaron Rogers earns the title of "Failed Obama Girlie Boy, Pajama Boy" as the overwhelming majority of thousands of Greenbay Packer fans rejected his request that fans lock arms to show unity with the NFL America Haters on the Packers and Chicago Bear NFL teams. The fans simply chanted unending, loudly all night long, USA, USA, USA!!! POTUS, Trump wins big time!!! There is only one road open for the NFL, the NBA...

The Cold War was essentially a political struggle between free market capitalism and state controlled economics of communism, with the different value systems that these types of modern industrial societies had developed over a century. Our side more or less won the Cold War because enough people in the other camp came to realize that the best way forward for them was to adopt our value systems to the extent necessary to rescue them from the self-evident failures of communism. The state of play after 25 years of our so-called victory is more than a little ambiguous. On the Soviet...

After all the excitement and the flurry of media coverage and great posts I've read here on Free Republic in the last few days, I thought I'd post this series of random, rambling thoughts about the self-inflicted demise of what had once been one of this country's iconic cultural institutions: the National Football League. I gathered these from many of the things I've posted in recent days, and I wanted to share them with anyone (everyone) who wants to chime in on this unfolding disaster. I was going to post it as a more serious, formal article, but I figured...

Short and Sweet - With the overwhelming, massive defeat last evening of Luther Strange, the "darling lap dog of the Senate Republican Establishment, RINO Leader", "FAILED, HATE TRUMP", Mitch McConnell, delivered by Trump Conservative Republican, Judge Roy Moore, after McConnell spent $30,000,000 million dollars, trying to save flawed Luther Strange. Mitch McConnell must be fired, today as leader of the Republican Senate Caucus. McConnell is two things, a total loser, do nothing & a most ardent hater of POTUS, Donald J. Trump. Senators...Broom him into forever obscurity, where he belongs!!! Let the PRIMARIES against Establishment Republicans RINOs begin in full...

How do you like it, Mitch?? Sing along!!

A**clown!!!!!!! Somebody needs to ask that POS what he wants for obummercare. Get him on record.

POTUS, Trump, the "tell like it is" POTUS, has caused both major political parties, the entire media and the entire sports world into a very uncomfortable place for all of them. Bottom line, Trump has the vast majority of Americans in his corner supporting him and his stance in defending the American flag, The American national anthem, The American culture, The American nation, and most of all the American people. The media is lost at babbling this or that, The NFL management and coaches, in total, are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, has zero leadership of any kind,...