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Posted on 11/30/2001 6:45:19 PM PST by hawk1

Recently discovered Free Republic forum and have found article after article containing some of the most unbelievable stories concerning American interests and values. Are these stories really true? If so the United States needs to look no further than within its own borders for state sponsored terrorism. Seems to be a recurrent theme on immigration and American traditions and values. Recently watched a CNN debate on whether the US should allow foreigners in the country if they say death to America. What??? One Georgetown professor said yes. Unreal.


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To: SpottedBeaver
you think i'm kidding, but i'm not -- my account of tonight's iron chef, which will be broadcast in 90 minutes, was entirely accurate. they've really gone downhill, from the voice they now have for chairman kaga, which sounds like bela lugosi, to the theme ingredients. gone are the days of large, live octopi, or (my personal favorite) the carp battle in which -- still not making it up -- one of the guys covered the scales in sugar and deep fried them to make carp scale cookies. now they're down to milk; a couple of weeks ago it was carrots (including both carrot ice cream and carrot pudding). maybe they're just softening us up for the american version, which has william shatner as chairman kaga. i'm not making that up, either. it's enough to make one throw himself to the moose and die a terrible death. one last bite of cheese and adieu.

dep

41 posted on 11/30/2001 7:32:22 PM PST by dep
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To: IronJack
You've made too fine a distinction for me.

Start with the basics.

42 posted on 11/30/2001 7:33:46 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: hawk1
What veracity?

You folks have managed to turn this place into a joke.

43 posted on 11/30/2001 7:34:14 PM PST by lonnie
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To: VA Advogado
You have more patience than I do....all stupid people irritate me.
44 posted on 11/30/2001 7:35:37 PM PST by JD86
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To: xJones
Welcome, pull up a comfy chair...

Not the comfy chair!

45 posted on 11/30/2001 7:36:34 PM PST by mlo
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To: TomServo; Dog; Dog Gone
Hey - at least he/she didn't post 'Bad American'.

Or bad Dog or bad Dog Gone. Love those guys.

46 posted on 11/30/2001 7:36:47 PM PST by VA Advogado
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To: hawk1
To understand the posts, you must 1st purchase your super-secret FreeRepublic.com decoder ring. Available in helicicopter-black, tinfoil-silver, or cheese-orange. Each ring is personally signed by JimRob with the inscription "All your base are belong to us".
47 posted on 11/30/2001 7:36:57 PM PST by 4CJ
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To: jackbill
OUCH ! Out, out damned typo.

compilatio = compilation

BLUSH

48 posted on 11/30/2001 7:43:45 PM PST by nopardons
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To: dep
Have you been watching my attempts at cooking?
49 posted on 11/30/2001 7:44:46 PM PST by SpottedBeaver
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To: VaBthang4
the first to post "breaking news".

It's the special much-coveted cyber-scoop certificate, which can be printed out, laminated, and framed.

Congratulations!
You are one pico-second closer to awareness of the present moment than almost anyone.
This status will last until the very next post.

50 posted on 11/30/2001 7:48:31 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: hawk1
As a general rule you should never believe anything Dog Gone says.

I, on the other hand, have never ever lied in my entire life.

51 posted on 11/30/2001 7:51:52 PM PST by Tex-Con-Man
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To: RightWhale
the first to post "breaking news".

though we mustn't forget the extra points if the breaking news is a vanity that has no actual relation to news, is not itself new, and is only tenuously connected to reality.

dep

52 posted on 11/30/2001 8:24:48 PM PST by dep
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To: tacticalogic
I can tell Shat from Shinola. I have trouble telling Libertaians from Heaven's Descendants. Arent' they really the same? Don't Libertarians counsel the throne of Heaven? If not, their prospectus lied. And Harry Browne is mortal.
53 posted on 11/30/2001 8:47:21 PM PST by IronJack
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To: hawk1
Recently discovered Free Republic forum and have found article after article containing some of the most unbelievable stories concerning American interests and values. Are these stories really true?

A great many articles posted here require a healthy amount of skepticism--don't believe everything you read. However, it does give you a wider understanding of just how crazy some groups of people are--here in the US and abroad.

If you pay attention to the discussions that follow the articles, usually someone will provide any necessary debunking--sometimes it's logical debunking, and sometimes it just consists of ridiculing the poster and/or the publication being referenced, LOL.

Welcome to FR, and be sure to check out the Welcome Center and Information Desk

Oh, and you'll want to track down a reliable source of tin-foil, you'll need it around here. ;)

-penny

54 posted on 11/30/2001 9:03:26 PM PST by Penny1
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To: hawk1
Welcome aboard, hawk1!
55 posted on 12/01/2001 1:04:40 AM PST by brat
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To: hawk1
Now that you have a few replies to your question I bet things are really clear to you now. Welcome.
56 posted on 12/01/2001 1:16:05 AM PST by Flyer
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To: IronJack
Its the libertarians I have a problem with. I can't handle both at the same time. :)

22 posted on 11/30/01 7:58 PM Pacific by VA Advogado

I have trouble telling Libertaians from Heaven's Descendants. Arent' they really the same? Don't Libertarians counsel the throne of Heaven? If not, their prospectus lied. And Harry Browne is mortal.

53 posted on 11/30/01 9:47 PM Pacific by IronJack

Capitalization is important. There is a difference between libertarian and Libertarian, just like there is a difference between democratic and Democratic or representative and Representative. If you have trouble telling the difference, I think it's probably a case of can't and don't want to being interchangable.

57 posted on 12/01/2001 5:18:29 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: VaBthang4
"Debka? Ananova and others? "

Debka makes Ananova look like Fox News.

58 posted on 12/01/2001 5:26:03 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: tacticalogic
Capitalization is important.

you DON'T saY.

59 posted on 12/01/2001 6:04:09 AM PST by IronJack
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