Free Republic

Several weeks have transpired since the publication of the Lucas Smith BC and still NO ONE has been able to contact the Chief Administrator at the Coast Province General Hospital in Kenya ? After my first viewing of this document, I just assumed that the FIRST order of business would be to contact Helton (gender still unknown {male or female ?} as the signature appears to indicate a female or perhaps a male with unusually legible penmanship). However, amidst all of the controversy surrounding the acquiring and veracity of this document, NO ONE has stepped up to the plate to...

Note: Photo included. Contrite St. John's Univ. student behind alleged massacre threats on Facebook says booze to blame BY KERRY BURKE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Thursday, September 17th 2009, 3:34 PM PHOTO CAPTION: "Radames Santiago Jr., 18, a student from St John's, who was arrested for making threats on his Facebook page." SNIPPET: "A St. John's University freshman who posted messages on Facebook threatening to launch a "Virginia Tech attack" at the Queens campus told the Daily News that he was just drunk and never would have caused anyone harm." SNIPPET: "Santiago, who lives in Washington Heights with his mom...

More Honest Debate What is a Cooperative (Co-Op)? A Cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit. A cooperative may also be defined as a business owned and controlled equally by the people who use its services or who work at it.There are many types of Co-Ops in the United States. I will attempt to address some of the most common cooperatives. If you belong to a credit union, you are already a member of a Co-Op. My electric and natural gas utility company is an EMC, another word for Co-Op....

Hon. James David Manning ponders if it is time for white people to become slaves

MOSCOW -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday that the decision by the Obama administration to scrap plans for a missile defense system in Europe is a "responsible move." Medvedev made the comments on state TV just hours after President Barack Obama announced he was shelving the project, which has been a major irritant in U.S. relations with Russia. He said he and Obama had discussed the issue of missile proliferation in their meetings earlier this year in London and Moscow and had agreed to work together to reduce that risk. "The announcement made today in Washington shows that the...

The statement from Joementum: “This deeply regrettable decision sends the wrong message to Tehran, Moscow, and our European allies at a critical time in our effort to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program,” Lieberman said. “Moreover, it means that we will have a less capable missile defense system to protect the United States and our European allies against the Iranian threat. The administration must take immediate and tangible action to reassure our allies in Central and Eastern Europe that we are committed to their security and independence.” Lieberman continued to call upon the Obama Administration to meet conditions that the Senate...

(click image to enlarge) More Honest Debate Can the Federal Government outsmart itself? Health Savings Accounts (H.S.A.'s) either work, or they don't work. The government came up with a great plan, but failed to promote it. That's what our government does. They solve a problem, and then come back in a couple of years and solve it again. We are seeing it with health care, as well as with energy policy. Health Savings Accounts are a great idea. I have had one for over three years and have been satisfied with the program. Since I am in control of the...

(CNSNews.com) – The Social Security Administration (SSA) has issued benefit checks totaling $40.3 million to an estimated 6,100 beneficiaries for months – and in some cases for decades -- after receiving notification of their deaths, according to a June audit report from the agency’s Office of Inspector General. Approximately 1,760 of the 6,100 listed as deceased actually were dead, the government auditor estimated. The rest were alive, but had been wrongly listed as deceased.

Argentina's lower house debated Wednesday President Cristina Fernandez's broadcast reform bill, which is expected to pass despite criticism from opposition parties that it will increase state control over the media. ~snip~ "We are convinced we will have enough votes," Deputy Agustin Rossi, head of the president's Victory Front faction of the Peronist party in the lower house, told reporters. Fernandez says her reform of decades-old media regulations will bolster democracy by allowing smaller players and nonprofits more access to frequencies and putting restrictions on the number of licenses big media players can have. But critics say her main motive is...

Talk show host Sean Hannity is in our Valley tonight. The topic is water. But it’s bigger than that. Some believe its: Environmentalists vs. Liberty. Some believe environmentalists are standing on the necks of our farmers and their kids. And ... some believe they’re coming for YOUR water next. This link has..

My message was demanding an immediate apology for saying that we who oppose what Obama is doing to this country are racists. The comments were outrageous. And, Jimmy Carter -- he did enough damage to this nation as president but he still hasn't stopped doing to this day. http://www.cartercenter.org/about/contact.html Contact Information: The Carter Center Hours of Operation: Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mailing Address: The Carter Center One Copenhill 453 Freedom Parkway Atlanta, GA 30307 Phone: (404) 420-5100 or (800) 550-3560 E-mail: carterweb@emory.edu Note: Should you have any difficulty sending an e-mail to The Carter Center, please...

I am looking for a list of conservatives colleges in Texas, specially states universities around the San Antonio area, any recommendations? My daughter will be ready for college in about 3 yrs, and I am doing my research and planning to start visiting them. I also would like to know what colleges are the ones we should avoid at all costs.

Let’s all raise a toast to the man who, more than any other, represents the face of all that is mean, small, ignorant, bigoted, and petty in the United States of America circa 2009: Representative Joe Wilson. At this point, the entire world has seen his picture: Mouth gaping, lips turned downwards in a derisive sneer, eyes blazing with dumb-animal fury as he bellowed two immortal words at the President of the United States. “You lie.”

Mama Grizzly becomes the first real politician of the Internet era. When Sarah Palin aborted her gubernatorial career in its final trimester, pundits and political insiders reacted with shock, bafflement, scorn, and dismay. “Resigning strikes me as very strange,” National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg offered with charitable restraint. “Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy,” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd echoed, holding the charity. “I wouldn’t call this a strategy,” Republican campaign strategist John Weaver told Time magazine. “This makes no sense.” To anyone who pays more attention to Ben Bernanke than Ben Affleck, walking away from a prime...

I am trying to upload, via Amazon DTP, a document that has Chinese characters. If I upload a Word document, I get a message saying that the upload failed because of Unicode conversion problems. If i convert the Word document to a PDF, the upload happens, but instead of seeing characters, I see question marks. Can I upload Chinese characters via DTP? Thanks.

In order to sort through the disaster that is Wells Fargo’s (quote: WFC) commercial loan portfolio, the bank has hired help from outside experts to pour over the books… and they are shocked with what they are seeing. Not only do the bank’s outstanding commercial loans collectively exceed the property values to which they are attached, but derivative trades leftover from its acquisition of Wachovia are creating another set of problems for the already beleaguered San Francisco-based megabank. Wachovia, which Wells purchased last fall as it teetered on the brink of collapse, was so desperate to increase revenue in the...

America has been greatly blessed by God and has stood as the greatest country in the history of the world for over 200 years. America has many foreign and domestic enemies that are seeking her destruction.This thread is a daily call and reminder for people of faith who believe in God and in the power of prayer to make a commitment to intercede for America at this critical time in her history2 Chronicles 7:14If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I...

RUSH: Let me go back to the Washington Post, because on Monday the 7th, the Washington Post published an article that very few people talked about and was little noticed, about changes in the mortgage market since Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were taken over a year ago. According to the Washington Post -- this is a quote -- "Only one lender of consequence remains [in the mortgage market]: the federal government..." The mortgage industry has been nationalized. "[N]early 90 percent of all new home loans are funded or guaranteed by [YOU!] taxpayers... The government has the power to decide...

China's increasingly advanced weaponry could undermine US military power in the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday. Echoing US intelligence guidelines released on Tuesday that warned of Beijing's military modernization, Gates said US naval carriers and air bases in the Pacific faced new threats from China. "In fact, when considering the military-modernization programs of countries like China, we should be concerned less with their potential ability to challenge the US symmetrically -- fighter to fighter or ship to ship -- and more with their ability to disrupt our freedom of movement and narrow our strategic options," Gates said...