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I have Miami Heat season tickets for the remainder of this year and all of next year. I can't make it to many of the games so I wanted to donate most of them to military veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I would love some recommendations on good charities. Thanx FReepers. :-p

The Securities and Exchange Commission is out today with a letter to companies that own a lot of financial instruments whose current market value must be reported to shareholders. For more than a few companies, disclosing market values is neither easy nor convenient. The issue is the application of SFAS 157, which governs the way companies compute fair value of assets, assuming they have to do so anyway. (Banks and brokers have to do that a lot, but I won't go into the details of when they can avoid it.) The rule took effect on Jan. 1, although some companies...

There was a time in America’s history when the Republican party stood for limited government. No more. The conservative Republican posterboy and architect of the “Contract with America” gave a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, where he “called on the secretary of defense to give a speech every year on the state of our schools.” Why would he call for such a thing? Because Newt Gingrich says that America’s schools are “a matter of national security.”

The Democrats have a bigtime conundrum. Both of their leading candidates are unelectable in the general election in large part because of Hillary's decision to fight for the nomination to the bitter end...and possibly beyond. So how can the Democrats get themselves out of this lose-lose situation? By calling upon the Mighty Goracle to save them. At least that is the proposal of several leading liberals as you can see in this HUffington POst THREAD titled, "How Al Gore Could Save The Democrats." However, this presents several problems. Even if Al Gore accepts the nomination, this would only ENRAGE...

Barack Obama has for at least 20 years been listening to preaching of hatred from the pulpit. This must have some effect on a man who listened to this preaching all them years. I have placed a shot video, I call, Live and Let Live, that depicts an innocent dove being shot with a slingshot and a mortal wound to the dove’s head. I ask if Barack Obama gets the White House and becomes the next president of the USA, will Obama be the one holding the sling shot and the average American the dove? o7jimmy (Revski)

Central Planning and Herd Mentality Professional politicians, investors, and journalists are working in concert to push forward new legislation to greatly expand the powers and role of the Federal Reserve. "The markets have failed" they protest, and the solution they see is more central planning. The problem is, more central planning will only re-enforce the herd mentality that created the housing bubble and the current commodities spike. The herd theory of the markets is important to understanding how the housing bubble became such a problem, but too often the herd mentality is written off as "irrational." In this article, the...

Piers Morgan won the "Celebrity Apprentice" series and while my prediction was wrong, the reality was perfect. For as nice as Trace Adkins is, Piers should have won. Here's a re-cap of all the episodes of the 2008 series, a review of the show in terms of entertainment and competitiveness and a look back to the beginning. All with videos (including the new and wonderful Trace Adkins' tune) and pics you'll find nowhere on the Internet.

I was doing some googling to see if I could find some info on Obama and the Million Man March he reportedly marched in and helped organize, and I found this interview of Obama in the Chicago Reader from December 1995, after he (yes!) attended the march. What stands out to me is his unapologetic love affair with collectivism. I guess that’s not surprising for a Democrat, but still…..wow! Here are some highlights: John Wayne = Typical white guy: “In America,” Obama says, “we have this strong bias toward individual action. You know, we idolize the John Wayne hero who...

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Like Wright, Father Michael Pfleger has close ties to Barack Hussein Obama and Father Michael Pfleger's endorsement appears on Obama's faith endorsements page, where Jeremiah Wright's used to be... before he became too much of an embarrassment.

each time i read part of a st pete times newspaper, i pledge to never do it again. today i was trapped in my car from orlando to spring hill with a part of the rag only to read.i get at least monthly offers to subscribe at very low price, so low i find it difficult to be believe they operate at a profit, and wonder if SOROS or SEAN PENN keep them afloat, just to get the bile on the street.i now carry a book to the DR office so i can avoid the radical writings of the extreme...

"He was 'the most patriotic American photographer I've ever met, always talking about how he loves America,' said Associated Press photographer Paul Sakuma, who knew Dith through their work with the Asian American Journalists Association." "The regime of Pol Pot, bent on turning Cambodia back into a strictly agrarian society, and his Communist zealots were blamed for the deaths of nearly 2 million of Cambodia's 7 million people."

<p>This animated video is presented with a Red Tailed Hawk and Song, also bird watchers that run into a divided scenario that result in verbal declaration.</p> <p>I am ramping up creating videos and this may be the last one for awhile but if you wish to see all or some of my videos go to my web-page revski.org at the link below and on YouTube - o7jimmy or YouTube - lotis333 my wife Cheryl's page and her videos.</p>

Obama fever has overtaken San Francisco. Undeterred by the conspiracy theories, hatred, and vitriol spewed by Obama's 20-year "like an uncle to me" pastor, Jeremiah Wright, local liberals are in thrall to their perceived savior. They seem to think that every problem, no matter how trivial, can be solved by Saint Obama. As a case in point, an elderly man I was chatting with yesterday at a city bus stop about MUNI delays (a time-honored tradition in San Francisco) concluded by stating, "I hope Obama gets elected so these things will be fixed." So, along with ending poverty and creating...

United States “abusing, torturing, and raping” Iraqi civilians. Obama “Free Palestine” group calls Israel “apartheid” While this material (http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/arab/gGBzsg) was not written by Barack Obama or his staff, it appears on a domain he owns and over which he exercises complete editorial control. In addition, Dr. Levant has “2403 points, 1180th place - tied (only 1 point more to move up)” which shows extensive activity on Obama’s Web site. He/she is obviously not keeping a low profile to avoid notice by the moderators. Res ipsa loquitur, the thing speaks for itself. We encourage our readers to download (don’t link, it...

Muslims and naive Western liberals don't like it, but here's modern Islam in all its glory. WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES

Not to be outdone by Democratic presidential rival Senator Hillary Clinton’s bogus claims to have been named after the man who climbed Everest six years after her birth and narrowly escaped death in Bosnia, Senator Barack Obama claimed that a 1965 civil rights march in Selma Alabama encouraged his parents to give birth to him in 1961. According to Obama, “the 1965 civil rights march inspired my father to abandon his wife in Kenya and come to America in 1960—even dodging sniper fire when his plane landed at the Honolulu airport—just so he could marry a white woman and father...

Since President Kennedy’s term ended abruptly, it has continually been the operating philosophy of the Democratic Party to take from those who produce and give to those who don’t produce. In examining the economic programs of both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama, it is clear that this philosophy will be applied with a heavy hand should one of them be elected president. They plan to do away with the Bush tax cuts on earned income, reinstate the death tax and also greatly increase capital gains taxes on all of us who own common stocks and mutual funds, and who save...

Coptic priest Zakaria Botros fights fire with fire. Though he is little known in the West, Coptic priest Zakaria Botros — named Islam’s “Public Enemy #1” by the Arabic newspaper, al-Insan al-Jadid — has been making waves in the Islamic world. Along with fellow missionaries — mostly Muslim converts — he appears frequently on the Arabic channel al-Hayat (i.e., “Life TV”). There, he addresses controversial topics of theological significance — free from the censorship imposed by Islamic authorities or self-imposed through fear of the zealous mobs who fulminated against the infamous cartoons of Mohammed. Botros’s excurses on little-known but embarrassing...

I've been busy reading books like crazy, and during my neglect of The Judge Report a number of interesting things have happened relating to New York State politics, or what's left of it, with some national implications. Now that the self-flagellation has stopped from interim Governor David Paterson, we are suddenly confronted with the news that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani might be interested in being the Republican candidate for governor if there should be a special election in November. Huh? Following quickly on that revelation is a Newsweek article theorizing that after she loses the Pennsylvania primary...