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PALIN: They have no shame...
https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/photos/a.10150723283643588.424640.24718773587/10152824382343588/?type=1#
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— [Dem] Kentucky radio ad yanked due to malicious slander —
[actual headline ...]
Ad being pulled from Paducah radio after claims on tolls rated false by station
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219351/posts
“... A radio ad from the Kentucky House Democratic Caucus Campaign Committee is being pulled from the air in the 3rd District state House race after the group twisted the wording of the Republican candidate on tolls ...”
[So far as I’m concerned, twisting words around with slanderous intent IS malicious slander.]
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BRITAIN CLOSER TO QUITTING EU...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/527196/EU-Brussels-David-Cameron
[Yesterday, the EU demanded more money from UK]
VA removes Alabama medical director at center of scandal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219357/posts
Video Hoax Purports to Show NYPD Racial Profiling, Islamophobia (tweeted by CAIR)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219358/posts
Egypt: a suicide car bombing killed at least 30 soldiers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219356/posts
After U.S. government approval, Samsung Knox security for Android is “completely compromised”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3219355/posts
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Infant denied flu vaccine because his family has insurance (East Tennessee)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219325/posts
... “My child is being denied the vaccination outright, denied the vaccination because we have insurance. That baffles me,” she says. Howard’s physician ran out of the preservative-free vaccination for infants, so she made an appointment at the Sullivan County Health Department. ... [snip]
[Willing to pay cash, but nope. Socialism perverts the cycle of supply-and-demand. Another perversion is having insurance in a non-Victorian society — insurance requires a Victorian society to be efficient, a level of morality that few Americans of today could comprehend.]
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DALLAS AIRPORT FIGHT CAUGHT ON VIDEO
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3219328/posts
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Steyn: One Person Can Change Everything and ‘I Like Ted Cruz’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3219332/posts
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Green light for ISIS? Syrian (rebel) forces will be trained to defend, not retake territory.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3219348/posts
[Personal thought: A low-budget military gets more bang-for-the-buck with defense than with offense. Defensive trenches were one of the best tactics used by Confederates during the Civil War, used by Wellington against Napoleon on the Spanish peninsula, and used by Old Hickery back in ‘1814, we took a little trip ...’ Romans often relied heavily on defense as did the Athenians against Sparta. Yes, the Athenians and Confederates ultimately lost, but without walls/trenches, they would never have had a chance. So it’s probably the best our strategists/trainers can do with limited budgeting.]
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North Korea Closer to Building Nuclear Missile, Pentagon Says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219389/posts
As China Deploys Nuclear Submarines, U.S. P-8 Poseidon Jets Snoop on Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219327/posts
OKINAWA, Japan—Swooping down to 500 feet over the western Pacific, Cmdr. Bill Pennington pilots his U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon surveillance aircraft toward an unidentified vessel off southern Japan. In the back of the plane, a heavily modified Boeing 737, the crew homes in on the vessel using a barrage of surveillance equipment, including radar, GPS and infrared cameras. Further down the fuselage stand rows of tube-shaped sonar buoys that the crew can catapult into the sea and that float for up to eight hours as they track objects underwater. This is a dummy run: Today’s target is a Singaporean container... [snip]
[According to my personal studies of Armageddon, China’s navy will one day be next to worthless because the Euphrates River will block a Chinese advance into the Middle East {until the river dries up}. This also means that if ISIS is still around, it will be limited to one side of the river. How these events fall in place remains a mystery. I like to think that the US economy rebounds enough to maintain a superior navy.]
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The man who wants to build a plastics factory in North Dakota (Part 1)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3219349/posts
... trying to build a petrochemical plant in North Dakota. The plant will use ethane, the cheap, abundant component of natural gas that rises from the same wells that produce oil in the Bakken. Natural gas in North Dakota is especially high in ethane content ... [snip]
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Ex-US President Bush meets N. Korean defectors
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219383/posts
... [’Evil’ G.W. Bush] hosted a forum on North Korean human rights in Texas on Thursday (local time), his institute said. The George W. Bush Presidential Center said he met with leaders from the public and private sectors to discuss ways to address the North Korean human rights problem. “Five North Korean refugees also shared their stories of escape and their experiences building new lives in the United States as a result of the 2004 North Korean Human Rights Act, which President Bush signed... [snip: doing the work that the United Nations isn’t willing to do.]
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A quantum world arising from many ordinary ones
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3219371/posts
[Alternate reality mind-bender alert...]
The bizarre behaviour of the quantum world — with objects existing in two places simultaneously and light behaving as either waves or particles — could result from interactions between many ‘parallel’ everyday worlds, a new theory suggests. “It is a fundamental shift from previous quantum interpretations,” says Howard Wiseman, a theoretical quantum physicist at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, who together with his colleagues describes the idea in Physical Review X1. Theorists have tried to explain quantum behaviour through various mathematical frameworks. One of the older interpretations envisages the classical world as stemming from the existence of many simultaneous quantum... [snip-in-this-world, not snipping in other]
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Sikhs denied exemption from Ontario’s motorcycle helmet law
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219406/posts
[I say let them be stupid if they want to be. But govt run healthcare makes their concerns fiscally legitimate.]
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85-year-old man robbed, tied up by twin teens he met on web...
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/85-year-old-man-robbed-tied-twin-teenage-sisters-met-dating-website-officials-article-1.1986234
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Heroism in Texas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3219333/posts
It was just another trip to Wal-Mart for 2nd Lt. Joshua Nelson when he popped in to grab some fish hooks for a family trip to the lake this past Spring. Little did he know that a quick shopping trip would turn into so much more. The West Virginia Air National Guardsman was walking to the Hunting and Fishing section when he heard a woman say, “Stop, put it down!” “I could tell she was stressed and she sounded frightened,” said Nelson. “I looked into the aisle, and this young man had a knife to a woman’s stomach.” [snip]
[ ... Scott Walker’s Union-Busting, a repost from yesterday ... ]
Union enrollment plummets for Wisconsin teachers under tough law
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218906/posts
[Thanks to ‘evil’ governor Scott Walker...]
Teachers in Wisconsin’s public schools have learned a major lesson from the state’s landmark 2011 law neutering public sector unions, with more than a third dropping out of their labor organization. Given no choice but to join and pay dues to the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) for decades, teachers have for the last three years been able to opt out. And that is what tens of thousands have done as a result of Gov. Scott Walker’s Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill, also known as Act 10. “Given the evidence, it shows that the union’s hold is softening,” Patrick Wright, vice... [snip]