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The Batista soldiers would get a trial, after facing Che’s firing squad. Che often liked to finish the job with a .45 at five paces, shattering the skull of the condemned. And he liked killing. Prior to the revolution in Cuba, and shortly after landing in Cuba with Fidel and Raul Castro, Che wrote his wife. In the letter, he said, “”I’m here in Cuba’s hills, alive and thirsting for blood.” Another account has the wording a little different, with Che writing, ““Here in the Cuban jungle, alive and bloodthirsty.”

For a time in 2007, the New England Patriots appeared to be the very definition of a superpower. After achieving an undefeated regular season and arriving at the Super Bowl 18-0, the Patriots seemed poised to make history and become the first team in the history of the NFL to have a perfect 19-0 season. On the eve of Super Bowl XLII, few predicted anything but a Patriot victory. Pre-game analysis didn't focus on the question of whether the Patriots would win the Super Bowl, but rather on whether the Patriots were in fact the greatest football team ever to...

Sorry for the vanity - but I can't think of a better resource than FR regarding this topic. I don't trust Amazonian recommendations. Please, if you can, recommend the best book/s detailing the American Revolution. Not just the battles, but the politics leading up to the war, the writing of the Declaration of Ind., who the signers were ...etc. I'd appreciate any input. Thanks for your time.

It's St. Patrick's Day but it seems Barack O'Bama isn't exactly in a celebratory mood. In fact, his political world is starting to implode upon him thanks primarily to the revelations about his inflammatory pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Of course, O'Bama is now claiming that his virgin ears never ever heard Rev. Wright utter any Hate Honkey rhetoric in his sermons. As you can see in the VIDEO above, Jackie and Dunlap are casting aspersions upon the credibility of that claim. Even the denizens of the leftwing blogosphere are having trouble swallowing Obama's story about never ever hearing Wright's wrong...

The 3/13/08 episode of "Celebrity Apprentice" was an interesting one in that a good sandwich is always interesting. The teams prep a new Quiznos sandwich and one celebrity apprentice gets fired, there's now four left. And Guest Writer Michelle must move the aquarium. It's a day of fear.

The last time strategic oil reserves were released was in 2000 by Clinton and oil was at around $27 per barrel. With the overall psychological effect of high gas prices, what could be better than finally crashing oil prices? The price of oil is not justified by any economic variable, even the president of Chevron has said there is no oil shortage, there are no lines at any gas station, usage overall is down! This market is being manipulated, by hedge funds and tyrants. Can anyone give me a reason not to use this tool?

'Saint Constantine' Flavius Valerius Constantinus (AD ca. 285 - AD 337) Constantine was born in Naissus, Upper Moesia, on 27 February in roughly AD 285. Another account places the year at about AD 272 or 273. He was the son of Helena, an inn keeper's daughter, and Constantius Chlorus. It is unclear if the two were married and so Constantine may well have been an illegitimate child. When in Constantius Chlorus in AD 293 was elevated to the rank of Caesar, Constantine became a member of the court of Diocletian. Constantine proved an officer of much promise when serving under...

There was an article on FR a few years ago about a California college professor that fell for the 419 scam.He was a big critic of Ronald Reagan, citing diminshed intelligence or something like that.After trying all the relevant key-words and also using the advanced search options on both AltaVista and Google without success, I ask Freepers if they can help.

Wake up people: Obama doesn't believe Jeremiah Wright's rhetoric about white Americans. Jeremiah Wright doesn't believe his own rhetoric. Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright's connection is not a shallow one based on race. It's a deep bond rooted in the belief that the black community can be used to propel a socialist agenda. Jeremiah Wright is one of many black socialists that understand that exploiting the reach of the church is the best way to bend the will of the black community into supporting an agenda that is at odds with its core beliefs. Doesn't it seem odd that Wright's...

Earlier this year I published a post (What Is Bush Thinking? Ask Fred on 2nd Amend. Rights) that revealed that the Justice Department of the Bush Administration had applied a “friend of the court” request to the Washington, DC gun control case that had been taken up by the Supreme Court. For years, DC had banned gun ownership (leading to its position as the murder capitol of the USA), but a federal appeals court finally threw out the ban. The case was appealed by DC to the Supreme Court, and gun owners have been hoping and expecting that our 2nd...

Steffanie Renae, an 11 year old friend of daughter's, is an extremely talented singer. This week she represented Florida in the North American Country Music Awards International competition in Pigeon Forge Tennessee, near Gatlinburg. Just to represent Florida, she already had to win a series of competitions at county fairs. At the 2008 NACMAI, out of about 500 finalsts in the 12 and under category, she came in first. Steffanie won both female Vocalist of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year. It's hard to believe, when you hear her, that she is only 11 years old. If you go...

Third Parties Controlling Information Wine Therapy is a web bulletin board for serious wine geeks. It's been active since 2000, and its database of back posts and comments is a wealth of information: tasting notes, restaurant recommendations, stories and so on. Late last year, someone hacked the board software, got administrative privileges and deleted the database. There was no backup. Of course the board's owner should have been making backups all along, but he has been very sick for the past year and wasn't able to. And the Internet Archive has been only somewhat helpful. More and more, information we...

TWO KILLED IN SIX-MOTORCYCLE PILE-UP Bernama Bernama - Monday, March 17 KLANG, March 16 (Bernama) -- A predawn, six-motorcycle pile-up left two motorcyclists dead and four others injured, one seriously, at Batu 3, Jalan Kampung Jawa near Telok Menegun today. B. Jayanathan, 27, and Mohd Shahrudin Kamaruddin, 18, who sustained head and body injuries, died on the way to the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital (HTAR). Mohamad Nizam Zulpata, 18, has been warded at the hospital's intensive care unit in a critical condition. The rest sought out-patient treatment. Klang traffic police and public order chief DSP Rosly Abd Rahman said all...

Saturday, March 15, 2008 A Word Of Respect For Jeremiah Wright There is much being made this week about the preaching of The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the now retired pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ. Do I agree with every word he has preached? No. But I've never met a pastor who hasn't made mistakes or gone overboard (myself included). As Diana Bulter Bass wrote yesterday: Anyone who attends church on a regular basis knows how frequently congregants disagree with their ministers. To sit in a pew is not necessarily assent to a message preached on a particular day....

Southwest has apparently shelved an effort to outsource some of its maintenance to a facility in El Salvador, according to a report filed by Bloomberg News this afternoon: Southwest Airlines Co., under fire for missing required aircraft inspections, dropped a plan to move some maintenance operations outside the U.S., a union official said today.

Democratic presidential contender Senator Barack Obama’s campaign was dealt a setback when examination of the sermons of the pastor of the church he has been attending for the last 20 years revealed the man to be a raving lunatic. Samples of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s sermons quoted him urging Blacks to sing “God Damn America,” calling the United States a terrorist nation that brought the 9/11 attacks on itself and alleging that the government was trying to destroy Blacks by giving them drugs and AIDS. Videos of Wright’s rantings have been popping up all over the web. Obama has tried...

Woman files lawsuit against AMR because passenger next to her masturbated while she slept A 21-year-old Harris County woman filed a $200,000 lawsuit against American Airlines alleging employees on a flight to Los Angeles from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport failed to protect her while she slept from another passenger who masturbated to her and ejaculated in her hair, according to a lawsuit she filed last week in Tarrant County. The Harris County woman alleges employees knew of the risks associated with failing to “police the passengers to ensure that passengers do not hurt one another,” the suit states. Airline officials did...

WEHT Fred Thompson? He seems to have completely disappeared from the scene. However, Red State Update hasn't forgotten about fellow Tennessean Thompson. Here is a VIDEO of Red State Jackie checking his hotline messages to see if Fred Thompson has called in to tell him which charity to donate the money earned on eBay from his Arthur Branch drawing. Unfortunately for Jackie, many "Fred Thompsons" call in but not THE Fred Thompson.Just to get a tiny bit controversial here, this video demonstrates one of the reasons why Thompson fizzled out in the primaries. It seems he just doesn't like...

I heard your sermons, Mr. Wright.  You say your people have suffered for 300 years.   You say that taxicabs pass you by.  You blame rich white men for your woes.  You think nobody ever said that Hillary Clinton was not white enough.   Well here is my story, Mr. Wright.  I was raised by rich white men.  They gave me love, they taught me about God.  And they sent me to public school where young black men pawed at my hair because it was silky, they said.  Later I would be mugged, robbed, beaten and molested by young black men.   Apparently my only...