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It's the battle of the Red's and Blue's as America goes to the polls to vote. This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

The Denver Post Illegal voters get stern warning Davidson vows to pursue fraud By Erin Cox and Chris Frates Denver Post Staff Writers Thursday, October 14, 2004 - Secretary of State Donetta Davidson said Wednesday that she will aggressively pursue the prosecution of voter registration fraud uncovered throughout the state. In a passionate speech at a news conference about the integrity of the election process, Davidson pushed for more help from the state's district attorneys and attorney general. Davidson, an elected Republican official, said she wants her warnings to prevent illegal voters from casting ballots. "I hope I scared...

This is a personal plea to Carlton Sherwood to allow free downloads of his documentary "Stolen Honor" to be shared by all.  I would like everyone who is undecided to see this compelling documentary.  We need to burn hundreds of thousands of VCD's and hand out at shopping malls, town squares, and share on P2P networks.  We can do much more to get people to see this than the web site www.stolenhonor.com could ever do.  100 blank CD's cost about $10, and I and my friends would be willing to spend hundreds to burn the documentary and handout in the...

New Jersey, a Blue State, May Be Trying on Shades of Purple By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI Published: September 26, 2004 TRENTON, Sept. 25 - To those who view this year's presidential race as a battle between politically polarized red and blue states, New Jersey has usually been viewed as so unquestionably Democratic that it could be colored somewhere between midnight and navy. But after trailing Mr. Kerry by 10 points in New Jersey as recently as late August, President Bush has sustained a bounce he received after the Republican convention, and three surveys released within the past 10 days suggest that...

Published online: 07 July 2004 Michael HopkinFossil findings blur picture of art's birthWho created the earliest artwork? Artworks from Germany were found alongside human remains. For years archaeologists have clung to the idea that only truly modern humans were artists, and that our Neanderthal cousins spent their entire evolutionary lifetime as boorish philistines. But fresh analysis of a prized set of human bones has dealt a body blow to this cherished theory. The first sparks of artistic creativity are seen in carved figurines found at various sites throughout Europe. The oldest examples are between 30,000 and 40,000 years old, which...

This weekend has started the grilling season. It's all about family, BBQ, and mosquitoes. The challenge is to create the official Freeper grill menu. Have a red, white, and blue cake recipe that you want to share? A Freeper burger that would cause the average liberal to shake in their boots? How about some great "W" T-Bone recipes? Share them and have your recipe rated by other Freepers. I would like to have a panel of Freepers sign up for the judging....lets decide who gets the "Patriot" creative menu. May the best Freeper win.

THE BLUE PEOPLE OF TROUBLESOME CREEKThe story of an Appalachian malady, an inquisitive doctor, and a paradoxical cure. by Cathy Trost ©Science 82, November, 1982 Six generations after a French orphan named Martin Fugate settled on the banks of eastern Kentucky's Troublesome Creek with his redheaded American bride, his great-great-great great grandson was born in a modern hospital not far from where the creek still runs. The boy inherited his father's lankiness and his mother's slightly nasal way of speaking. What he got from Martin Fugate was dark blue skin. "It was almost purple," his father recalls. Doctors were so...

NEWS May 19 - 25, 2004 www.bigbrother.govThe feds want to know who?s been visiting the Web site of voting watchdog Bev Harris, and they?re likely to get what they want.by George Howland Jr. Bev Harris of Renton runs a Web site that is a clearinghouse in the fight against electronic voting.(Rick Dahms) RELATED ARTICLE Black Box Backlash    In the past 20 months, Harris has become America?s leading critic of electronic voting (see ?Black Box Backlash, March 10). Her reporting on the problems with new computer voting machines has been a key component in a national, grassroots movement to...

"American Spectacle" Donald Rumsfeld political cartoon.May 10, 2004... There is a giant push going on to fire Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. And the ensuing battle shows once again the heated partisan fight in American politics... as clear as the "red" states versus the "blue" states.  Color-Me-Blue MoveOn.org has sent the following email:It's time for President Bush to fire Donald Rumsfeld from his post as America's Secretary of Defense. The signs are now everywhere. As Thomas Friedman put it, in a column titled "Restoring Our Honor": "This administration needs to undertake a total overhaul of its Iraq policy; otherwise,...

This quote is recessed in my aged memory. My son will wed early next month. I want to give the gifts to his new bride that represent this quote. Do any of my fellow FReepers know the original source? Thankful for any help.

Battleground in Manhattan as blue bloods fear losing their urban idyll By David Usborne in New York 01 January 2004 The posh residents of Sutton Place in Manhattan love to chatter about the wonder of their neighbourhood, which overlooks the East River and is replete with grand apartment buildings erected in the Twenties and Thirties. It is, they whisper, as splendid as Eaton Square, yet as intimate as London mews. No address along these seven blocks of privilege, located just north of the United Nations, is more sought after than One Sutton Place South, a 13-storey Italian Renaissance monument to...

Some Would Write Off a South That Loves GOP Re Ronald Brownstein's "In the South, GOP Rides the Wave of Bush's Popularity," Nov. 16: [Snip] However, as a true blue-state, big-city liberal, I am tired of having to kowtow politically to the most regressive part of the nation (the South) and defer to its most conservative constituency (white evangelical Christians). [snip] ...it's that the retrograde mind-set embraced by the GOP and those voters does so well. As always, the South is an anchor dragging the rest of the country down. Paul Giorgi Culver City

Burr leads Bowles, Blue in U.S. Senate race, poll finds By ROB CHRISTENSEN, Staff Writer Republican Rep. Richard Burr of Winston-Salem holds an early lead in next year's race to replace Democratic Sen. John Edwards, according to a new statewide poll. Burr leads two prospective Democratic opponents, Charlotte investment banker Erskine Bowles and Raleigh attorney Dan Blue, the survey found. Meanwhile, Democratic Gov. Mike Easley, who plans to seek a second term next year, continues to show resilience despite a battered economy and 2 1/2 years of budget crisis, according to the survey of 600 likely voters conducted last week...

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HELENA -- Libertarian Stan Jones of Bozeman said Tuesday he is strongly considering running for governor next year. "I'm going to do a little more exploring," he said. "Right now, all indications are that I will run. I need to see how much support I can get." He ran as a Libertarian candidate for governor in 2000, getting 2 percent of the vote, and as the party's standard-bearer for the U.S. Senate in 2002, polling 3 percent, despite spending very little money. Jones gained national attention as a U.S. Senate candidate in 2002 because his skin had turned blue-gray. Jones...

Everybody’s tight-lipped about the surprise guests at Monday’s (April 7) CMT Flameworthy 2003 Video Music Awards, but here’s what we know: The last time Flameworthy co-host Toby Keith was interviewed by CMT, he was asked what he’d be performing at the awards show. He said he might share one of his bus songs (such as “Only the Best-Looking Tuna Gets to Be Star-Kissed”), and he thought he’d perhaps write something for the occasion. Of course, with “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” up for two nominations -- or three, if … well, you know. Keith is going to make...

Monster Squid Grips Racing Yacht? AFP Jan. 16 — A French yacht taking part in the Jules Verne round-the-world sailing trophy was gripped by a giant squid for about an hour in the mid-Atlantic, its skipper announced by radio-link. Veteran yachtsman Oliver de Kersauson, at the helm of the trimaran Geronimo, said the three-hulled boat was hit by strange vibrations on Sunday, so he sent a crew member below deck to try to identify what was wrong. "Suddenly he saw something moving," de Kersauson said. "It was tentacles. "The squid was pulling really hard, so we put the boat...