Free Republic

Japan's first unmanned spacecraft to haul cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) is nearly ready for its maiden launch next week. The new cargo ship is poised to launch toward the station on Sept. 10 at 1:01 p.m. EDT (1701 GMT) from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan on a shakedown cruise. If all goes well, the inaugural spacecraft, called the H-2 Transfer Vehicle 1 (HTV-1), should arrive at the station on Sept. 17.

I read with great interest today a news article on a new White House initiative that calls on people to save for retirement. There will apparently be an option to get your tax return issued to you as US Savings Bonds as well as new legislation to make it easier for employers to automatically enroll workers in 401(k) plans. If you work hard and meet your responsibilities, this country is going to honor our collective responsibility to you: to ensure that you can save and secure your retirement. –US President Obama I didn’t know we all had a “collective responsibility”...

As owners of a major portion of the United States’ national debt, the government of China has exercised its option to foreclose on the White House. The foreclosure is scheduled for September 20th. This shocking turn of events follows from the extraordinary explosion of debt since the start of this year. “Look, title to the White House, per se, is largely symbolic,” said US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. “We have received no indication that the President and his family will necessarily be evicted. But even if they are there are still many who will take them in. After all, the...

A notice has just posted on my county school board website. They aren't showing the speech at all and "invites parents to view and discuss the speech with their children after school" I'm glad Georgia left it up to the school districts and told them they didn't HAVE to show it.

Fabulous analysis of Obummer's icon. Take some time to digest this information, then get it out there.

Looking for a quick and easy boost in the polls, President Obama has decided to go to the one place where merit bears no relationship to adulation: the United Nations. On September 24, the president will take the unprecedented step of presiding over a meeting of the UN Security Council.

WASHINGTON — Satellite messaging service provider Orbcomm of Fort Lee, N.J., has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) to launch 18 second-generation Orbcomm satellites starting as early as the fourth quarter of 2010, the companies announced Sept. 3

The number of animals and plants protected by the federal Endangered Species Act is about to increase dramatically. For Cass Sunstein, radical animal-rights activist and nominee for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator job, that means he will be better positioned than ever to make livestock farming a thing of the past.How are the two things connected? Our director of research appeared on the Fox News Channel yesterday to explain to Glenn Beck’s audience how much influence Sunstein may soon have over what we eat: Cattlemen in this country own and manage most of the lands...

President Obama on Saturday announced changes that the IRS plans to make to encourage workers to save more of their paychecks. "Even before this recession hit, the savings rate was essentially zero, while borrowing had risen and credit card debt had increased," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. "More broadly, tens of millions of families have been, for a variety of reasons, unable to put away enough money for a secure retirement. ... We cannot continue on this course." Most of the following changes will take effect immediately because of rule changes made by the Treasury Department....

Fred Astaire Swing Time...

Photo by Jeff Paterson, Not In Our NameVan Jones, Barack Obama's Green Jobs Czar, verbally attacked police officers at a 'Racial Justice Rally' held in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco in June 2004.A report by Tiny in Poor Magazine posted at Indymedia's Indybay.org about the rally quotes Van Jones as saying of the police officers watching over the rally, "See those men in ugly blue polyester over there? They all have one thought: 'Obey, obey, obey'."The report's other quote from Jones is, " "We’re gonna fight together and love together and liberate these blue polyester fools too."The...

Smoking Gun evidence, finally? We report you decide, Specially the naysayers denigrating Orly's case and stating she is the one in the court's cross hairs based wrongly on previous rejection by a Magistrate Judge Nakazato for technical reasons not the merits.

A CARGO ship that vanished in the Channel was carrying arms to Iran and was being tracked by Mossad, the Israeli security service, according to sources in both Russia and Israel.

Mexican candidate, his wife and 2 sons killed Published: 9/5/09, 6:10 PM EDT VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) - Gunmen killed a state congressional candidate and his wife and two sons in their home Saturday in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, in southern Mexico. Jose Francisco Fuentes Esperon, 43, was found dead along with his wife, 38, and two sons aged 9 and 13, in the state capital, Villahermosa, according to state Attorney General Rafael Gonzalez Lastra. Fuentes Esperon was a former university rector, and was widely known in the state capital. The state government immediately offered to provide protection for...

Note: The following blog entry is a quote: TALIBAN PROPAGANDA WATCH: Their Stats for the Month The Taliban Info Machine has published an English-language version of its latest summary of their stats, shared via a pro-terrorist web page here (PDF of chart available at non-terrorist page here). Also, another attempt at video-izing the stats is available at YouTube here. Same concept as last month – theunjustmedia.com intro & extro, followed by black screen, white text and Stephen-Hawking-esque audio reading the headings and numbers – with a couple of differences. 1) This month’s was WAY shorter (~2 minutes), as opposed to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears poised to wipe away limits on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions in time for next year's congressional elections in a case that began as a dispute over a movie about Hillary Rodham Clinton. The justices return to the bench Wednesday — nearly a month early — to consider whether to overrule two earlier decisions that restrict how and when corporations and unions can take part in federal campaigns. Laws that impose similar limits in 24 states also are threatened. The court first heard arguments in March in the case of whether...

Sorry for the late start to the weekend thread....I was to do this earlier......but had a senior moment. I just plum forgot to be honest.So lets get this started.Big week ahead the Socialist in Chief has scheduled another speech this time to sell another socialist program....health care....how many will fall for the snake oil sales pitch?

Let’s question the “common-sense” double-standard. Folks, I was reading this article published today in Time Magazine online, entitled, The Burial Box of Jesus' Brother: A Case Against Fraud, because the controversy has been around for a while and of course, because of the significance of the artifact were the claims to its authenticity be proven beyond reasonable doubt. Nevertheless, the introductory paragraph disappointed me, although I am already used to this case of disappointment coming from the so-called mainstream experts. Check it out: The world of biblical archaeology was stirred in 2002 by the unveiling of a limestone burial box...

The interrogator politely apologized for grilling the prisoner about her role in the mass protests over Iran's disputed presidential election. Then the prisoner was made to sit facing a wall in the courtyard of Iran's Evin Prison, blindfolded, handcuffed and covered in an all-enveloping chador for four and a half hours under the blazing sun.

The White House is quietly talking about drafting formal health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months,CNN has learned.President Obama has asked representatives what they mean when they call for a "robust" public option.Multiple sources close to the process told CNN on Friday that while the plan is uncertain, the administration is preparing for the possibility of delivering its own legislation to Capitol Hill sometime after President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.One source called the possibility of new legislation a contingency approach if efforts by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus,...