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Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this... The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the...

By Michael Master (author of Save America Now, Rules for Conservatives, The Birth Famine) Our home is in a community of 2,000 homes located on the inter-coastal in North Carolina. Everything lives here. Alligators. Water moccasins. Rattle snakes. Sea hawks. Egrets. Giant blue heron. Mosquitoes! blood sucking mosquitoes. We've watched from our back porch as dolphins chased sail boats and motor boats up the inter-coastal and watched the moon rise over the ocean to cast its glow over the inter-coastal. When the community decided to drain the swamp in the center of the community, it was a big deal. Draining...

I cannot participate in watching the game today. I know the two teams have supporters and this is an American tradition of 50+ years...but I just heard from a friend that there is a very secure WALL around the playing field, and heavy security is there. Security is not allowing people who don't have a ticket to go inside! These people YEARN to watch the game... to spectate inside the walls... but the BIGOTS in the NFL are refusing. #NotMySuperBowl.

Ruminating about all the vitriol blasted toward Trump over the past few hours, something struck me. I would like FREEPer's thoughtful opinions on the subject. Would it be fair for conservatives to treat ABORTIONISTS, those "doctors" who murder unborn children, with the same rhetoric as the liberals have treated so-called (and apparent) "predator lenders"--loan officers and bank underwriters who put people in homes they KNOW they cannot afford. In the end, the buyer loses their house, the mother her child. While the murderer/banker gets money. I know this may not be a perfect analogy. Just wondering if DT might have...

Subject: Great Analogy If you read this and do not feel compelled to do something else, at least forward it to others- it is very good Crash Position The pilot was locked out of the cockpit. That phrase finally revealed the full horror of the crash of Germanwings flight 9525. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz waited for the pilot to leave the cockpit, then locked the door to prevent his re-entry. After which Lubitz, for reasons unknown and perhaps unknowable, deliberately steered the jet into a harrowing 8 minute plunge ending in an explosive 434 mph impact with a rocky mountainside. 150...

On freerepublic, people were discussing the recent legal victory, where a federal judge ruled that people who already had guns had no reason to wait through a 10 day California waiting period.  The law was first passed in 1923.  He ruled that the law infringed on second amendment rights.  The KG9 Kid wrote, from freerepublic.com: I'm sorry, but I read of these little 'victories' by the CalGuns Foundation in their thoroughly anti-gun state and cannot help but compare them to some WWII Japanese radio broadcast that exclaims that the Imperial Japanese Navy now has now deployed the first rocket-powered...

“5 Now the end of the commandment is charity, from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith. 6 From which things some going astray, are turned aside unto vain babbling: 7 Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither the things they say, nor whereof they affirm. 8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully: 9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for the just man, but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly, and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I'm just waiting for the printer to spit something out here. It's about the chief justice. Here's the headline: "Chief Justice John Roberts Compares Gay Marriage To Forcing A Child To Call Someone 'A Friend.'" They have released the audio of the oral arguments now, and this is the story from Mediaite. "The optimism that Jean Podrasky, cousin of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, displayed when she told The Los Angeles Times that she 'trust(s) he will go in a good direction' in deciding whether same-sex couples have the right to marry may have been misplaced....

I guess this is one of the things that "gets me" about ex-Penn State coach Joe Paterno's apologists is that they seem to think Paterno... ...knows about the no-huddle urgency involved on the part of his offense when his team his down late in the game; but when it comes to offenses (as in criminal offenses) late in the night where children are at risk, they suddenly defend a Paterno who takes the time to do all these weekend huddles and who shows no urgency to either report the crime to his superiors (24 hours) or to authorities (never...til subpoenaed)....

Let's say, to use the way Buzz Bissinger framed it, you are "the most popular and powerful man in Pennsylvania, with instant credibility."You discover one of your neighbors, whom you can influence (or try to), has decided to abort their baby within the next 5-6 weeks. The dad says he was an eyewitness to the ultrasound of the "to be" male victim -- as his partner wants to kill the little guy. And so what do you do? Why, you do your civic duty, of course. You do what was tantamount to what Joe Paterno did. You sit down and...

Comment: Substitute a big person for the arbitrarily vindictive little boy and this story also gives a general idea of how groups, including families, work when they are dominated by narcissists. But bear in mind that there's a necessary requirement for such a reign of terror to continue: the isolation of a captive audience. One of the ways tyrannical narcissists isolate their captives is by telling them that they must keep secret what goes on inside or face dreadful punishment, because they're so special that no one outside the group is capable of understanding them -- and, of course, the...

We've learned of a judge in Melbourne, Australia who has issued a ruling that has stunning repercussions: a 12-yr-old girl can undergo a sex change despite the objections of her father. According to the Daily Mail, the girl cannot be named in the press because of her age yet her age, at least to the courts, doesn't preclude her from the ability to begin to undergo hormone treatments, the first stage of an eventual sex-change. A relative of the girl claims the mother has been after the girl to become a boy after a bitter divorce from the girl's father....

<p>President Bush's analogy to Iraq is not inaccurate, just incomplete.</p> <p>Ever since the mid-1970s, critics of American military involvement have warned that any decision to deploy armed forces abroad--in Lebanon and El Salvador in the 1980s, in Kuwait, Somalia, and Kosovo in the 1990s, and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan--would result in "another Vietnam." Conversely, supporters of those interventions have adamantly resisted any Vietnam comparisons.</p>

The Leapers have always been a group subject to oppression and scorn. Most consider them a nuisance at best and dangerous at worst. There have been numerous governments which have tried to eliminate the entire group outright. In fact, the distaste for the Leapers has been so great that in present times a vast majority of them are living in the desert- in exile.

This is a good way to help explain English comprehension, dependant and independant clauses and the meaning of the second amendment to the "intellectually challenged" (I don't normally use such terminology) left wing: An effective means of contraception, being necessary to prevent an unplanned child, the right of the people to purchase and use condoms shall not be infringed.