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I'm just sending out a feeler about Perriello. I'm considering a weekly Perriello ping unless someone is doing something like that already. BTW, he voted for Obama-care. [And yes, I live in this district. But DC and world news have had practically all my political attention.] Just for background [not quotable -- wiki alert] Wikipedia [warning -- not a quotable source, just a good launching pad] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Perriello Thomas Stuart Price "Tom" Perriello (born October 9, 1974 in Ivy, Virginia) is an American politician and attorney. He is the Democratic congressman from the fifth district of Virginia. The district includes much...

Please help. I plan to keep this thread alive until McCain loses the primary. Let's NAIL THAT RINO! Please help scout for headlines to bring here. I will ping people here once a week with choice headlines and links. [Since it's the OPPOSITE of high volume, several have already signed on.] If you would like to be on this once-a-week ping list, please let me know. Any helpful links will be appreciated. "The most recent online scores from the American Conservative Union are from 2008. In that year, John McCain scored 63 and had a lifetime average of 81.43. ......

So now we are seeing kids falling like flies from the swine flu [H1N1], and what drastic measures are being taken by the school system? Zip, zero, nadda. The dirty little secret is that schools are paid according to attendence. Kids need doctors' notes -- yadda-yadda. Bottom line -- sick kids are "noble" for toughing it out in school and spreading illness. If the safe school tsar gave half a tinker's fig, he would start fining schools that have obvious sick kids in class. Obama doesn't really care, his administration doesn't care, the teachers' union doesn't care -- it's all...

While the Left wants to spread the wealth around, we want to spread the TRUTH around. And speaking of truth, I want to know: did Obama’s children touch the two Rings? Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, were awarded notorious rings by North Vietnam. They are referred to as the ‘Rings of Death’, proudly adorning on the couple's fingers. [In the spirit of Saul Alinski, I was tempted to call them the ‘Lucifer Rings’. After all, if Ayers and his wife were indeed satantics, what would they do differently?] Did they mention the diabolic history of those two rings to...

I write this especially for our Maoist brothers. While the US is commonly vilified as the bastion of capitalism, it is little known that the US too has tried communism. It was only when communism failed that property rights and capitalism took hold. Let us go back into history and see what lessons America learned from its relatively short dalliance with Maoism much before the ‘great leader' himself was born. The year was 1607. The first 104 settlers had arrived from Europe in Jamestown in the Virginia Tidewater region of the US in May. They found soil which was fertile...

Overview: There are lawsuits being filed in multiple states. If Obama has nothing to hide, then his behavior is foolish both politically and cash-wise [legal fees] -- it would have been easy to end speculation by simply showing his birth certificate. Among the first to challenge his qualification to be president were the PUMAs. The most well reported lawsuit is by Berg, a Hillary supporter. One of the recent shockers is that Obama's Kenyan grandmother reportedly witnessed him born in Kenya. Another shocker is that Obama was, at least technically, Islamic while in Indonesia. There is also a flimsy paper...

One blogging group in particular is the PUMAs. What would happen if a power-hungry President were to play tricks with the draft? Could he use the draft as an excuse to: 1. Use draftees for slave labor [in the name of 'civil service']? 2. Put adults from age 18 to 41 into reeducation camps? These are the kinds of things that PUMAs and other bloggers fear. What first fueled this concern was Michelle Obama in a California speech: "Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your...

Sevaral links which will prove beyond any doubt that William Ayers [also known as Bill Ayers] remains a dangerous man to this day, and that Obama remained very, very close to this man despite overwhelming evidence of how dangerous and radical Ayers is. [They even shared an office for three years.]

Obama “would so weaken our security forces that I personally believe that we would be in much greater danger of terrorist attacks in the United States and abroad,” says Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo. “I’m very much concerned, because he’s shown weak judgment throughout his career. [snip] Obama voted twice in favor of requiring warrants to intercept communications of foreign terrorists situated overseas, including Osama bin Laden, Bond says. [snip] [Regarding the legal route Obama prefers in fighting terror ... ] “That’s really great,” Bond says. “Prosecuting somebody who’s blown themselves to pieces. You’re lucky to find enough of them to...

Just a quick question if you happen to know: did Bill Ayers attend any of the debates in the audience? I received an unverified tip that he did, and someone asked me to start a chat thread to find out. People are curious. If Ayers did attend: 1. How did he gain entrance? 2. Was extra care taken with regard to checking him for deadly weapons? 3. Was extra security needed? And did it cost us more tax dollars for security? 3. Was this calculated to intimidate? [I added a second '3' in honor of Joe Biden.]

The timing could not have been more terrible for Barack Milhous Obama. Here we are, seven years later, on the anniversary of 9-11-01-- during Obama's campaign. GOD IS SPEAKING TO US! --------------------------------------------------- New York Times No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen By DINITIA SMITH Published: September 11, 2001 'I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.'' Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone...

“At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It’s the art of the impossible.” -- Barack Obama “If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God’s edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one’s life on such uncompromising commitments may be sublime, but to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.” Barack Obama in the same June Speech. [transcript from his own senate website]http://obama.senate.gov/speech/060628-call_to_renewal/ [Here is part of Obama's speech] Moreover, given the increasing diversity of America’s population, the dangers of sectarianism have never been greater. Whatever we once...

This is just a vanity, a House Rebellion call to action to constituents of Virgil Goode [or anyone else who would like to help]. Please call Virgil Goode's office. Yes, he supports the House Rebellion, but please encourage him to do more. Here are some toll free numbers: 800-965-4701 800-828-0498 [For those who aren't cheapskates like me, there's a switchboard number at house.gov] Thank you and FRegards ....

1939 10 January Soviet intelligence defector Walter Krivitsky has the first of several debriefings at the Department of State. 26 June President Roosevelt secretly gives the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Military Intelligence Division (MID), and the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) exclusive responsibility for counterespionage. 23 August Germany and USSR sign Non-Aggression Pact. 1 September World War II begins as Germany invades Poland. 1940 21 May President Roosevelt authorizes the FBI to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance of persons suspected of subversion or espionage; surveillance was to be limited insofar as possible to aliens. 5 June FBI-MID-ONI "Delimitation Agreement"...

OK fellow FReepers. Here's the perfect time to eliminate National Endowment for the Arts. Is 'Pisschrist' more important than the people of NOLA? Bush said we need cuts to pay for NOLA rebuilding, and I can't think of a more frivolous and sickening waste of tax money than the NEA. Two birds with one stone. Tempt the left fall on their swords to say that the Corpus Christi play and fisting photos are more important than the victims of Katrina. What do you say, my fellow FReepers?

Please forgive any errors. Rush is about to discuss her remarks in the next segment. Wanted to add the ping. [The following is just my 2 Cents] Yesterday was no ordinary day. It was the fourth anniversary of 9-11-01. A day for reverence. A day to ponder infamy. A day to remember the victims families. And a day to honor America's heroes. Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu made an outrageous remark on the fourth anniversary date of 9-11-01. I AX this question: did she insult 9-11-01 heroes on the fourth anniversary of 9-11-01? Yesterday, Sunday, she said, "Mayor Nagin and most...

Just a quick heads up. Hannity announced he will be talking with Tancredo regarding the "Mecca Remark". If I'm not mistaken, it will be one of the segments in the last hour of his radio program. I'll try to provide a link for online feed.

One very quick word to any DU lurkers here. I call on any sense of decency in you to please, for just one day, unite as Americans in our prayers and and expressions of sorrow for the Brits. Please don't look at this as a partizan chess game-- just for one day. Please discourage others from pointing fingers at our President and simply, politely respond as a united, mourning nation. [There's plenty of time to ponder conspiracy theories after today.] At a time such as this, it is disgraceful for Americans to posture in a partizan manner. Advice for your...

Free Republic Exclusive Fred Phelps, leader of the "God-hates-faXs" movement, is planning on crashing the funeral of one of our War Dead on July 4th. Why? To spread his message of anti-homosexual SPAM in the most inappropriate way imaginable. There's a time and a place for everything. He's a publicity whore, as far as I'm concerned. Here are snips from an earlier FR Report: "A SF SGT E-5, James Stewart, will be buried in St. Petersburg, Florida on July 4, 2005. It's wholly appropriate that he be buried on our nation's birthday, because Sergeant Stewart gave his life for our...