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Any college students/alumni freepers that use the online directory facebook? Apparently a lot of friends I graduated with in high school and current friends in college have gotten into that fad which I only discovered recently. Just curious to see how many folks on here use it. And yes, I'll admit to having joined it recently. My profile picture is the one where I'm holding my AK-47 of justice. I'm not free and armed for nothing, you know.

A growing Christian movement is encouraging men to discard their "nice guy" personas and emulate the warrior heroes of films such as Braveheart and Gladiator to get closer to God. Churches and Christian groups worldwide are organising military-style boot camps and "weekend warrior" retreats to help men fight their perceived emasculation within church-going societies. The inspiration for the movement is Wild at Heart, a book by Colorado-based author John Eldredge, who believes "God designed men to be dangerous". The book has already sold 1.5 million copies in English and been translated into 16 languages... I came across this story at...

Anybody at FR dip Grizzly?

Here's the deal. I have to do a group project in a sociology class I'm taking at the community college. My group is assigned right now to research an apparent debate in the Senate over extending possible presidential terms to 3 in a row. Before I look like an idiot in my group tomorrow, does anybody know jack about this, and where I can find good information on it?? Thanks

The Dummies got hold of this poll on a radio station's website asking if you like the Michael Savage show. I guess they think it'll be taken off the air if enough people say no. Let's take back the poll just to annoy them. http://www.knssradio.com/index.php

Stop Alberto Gonzales -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 21, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com This may be a first. I, Joseph Farah, am joining with an informal coalition that includes the Communist Party USA, People for the American Way and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund to block confirmation of the Alberto Gonzales as attorney general. Granted, my reasons for opposing this guy are a bit different that the groups named above. But I agree with them that he must be stopped. I never had much use for Gonzales, but the last straw came this week when he told the...

HAHA, I must've missed the freep alert for this Air America post (found it while I was laughing at DU), but this is great. Good job guys. Now go freep it some more. http://airamericaradio.com/

WAR ON TERROR Saddam henchman: Iran funding resistance Head of 'Army of Muhammad' talks of help from Tehran, Syria -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 18, 2005 5:00 p.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The man who led Saddam Hussein's "Army of Muhammad" during 2004 has confessed that Iran is the primary source of funding for his jihadists battling U.S. forces in Iraq. Col. Muayed Al-Nasseri made the comments on a taped interrogation that was broadcast on an Iraqi television station operating from the United Arab Emirates, Al-Fayhaa TV. The tape was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI-TV. A video...

Here's an off the wall question. I've heard stuff about Clinton selling nuclear secrets to China, and I have a friend who doesn't believe me on this. He says nobody's ever heard of this before including himself. It's an old issue now and I don't remember if this is widely known or just a stupid conspiracy theory I picked up on the internet. Never really talked to anyone about it. Does anybody know of credible sources that support this, or am I just remembering some old conspiracy theory that circulated on the internet? It's nothing I'm willing to argue about...

U.N. Offers 'Reproductive' Aid to Tsunami Victims by Stuart Shepard, correspondent What kind of aid is headed for Southeast Asia? The United Nations has some strange ideas on what those affected need. What kind of help does Southeast Asia need to recover from the tidal wave that swamped the region and killed tens of thousands? It's likely your list won't include condoms and portable abortion devices—but that's part of the aid being sent by the United Nations. The United Nations Population Fund, known as UNFPA, has requested $28 million for tsunami assistance, part of which will go toward what it...

Hey, I read somebody's prayer request in general chat, so I decided to post one in here. I've decided to enlist in the Marine Corps, gonna sign up tomorrow and take the medical physicals next week. I'm pretty nervous about it and request that you guys pray I'll check out fine medically, and that I'll make it through boot camp. Thanks everyone.

I was just trolling through DU (yeah, nothing to do this evening), and saw a long thread of replies about abortion. I'm not easily offended, but this topic rarely fails to get my blood pressure up. For curiosity's sake, if you're reading this, what's your position on abortion and why? I'm pro-life just to let you know cause I don't believe in murder, and spare me all the sappy stories of mothers dying because of pregnancy. That's the only case I can see it being alright to commit an abortion. I guess it's better that only one person dies than...

Florida - "Assault Weapons" & Magazine Ban Filed Monday, December 20, 2004 TO: USF & NRA Members & Friends FROM: Marion P. Hammer Unified Sportsmen of Florida Executive Director NRA Past President SUBJECT: SB-500 It has started !! The threat by the Brady Campaign/Million Mom Marchers to reenact the Clinton Gun Ban state by state has started with Florida. The first Gun Ban bill has been filed for the 2005 Florida Legislative Session which begins in March 2005. The bill has not been referred to committees yet. We will notify members when it has been referenced and will provide email...

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I haven't seen this one posted yet, so here it goes. What do y'all think about this story? Kinda scary if their predictions are correct. TESTING THE FAITH 'UK church faces life underground' Top cleric sees implosion, persecution coming -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: December 11, 2004 4:15 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Christianity in Great Britain is imploding, fragmenting and will soon be driven underground, says a senior adviser to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. Jayne Ozanne told Williams and Archbishop of York David Hope that a time of great persecution for the church is coming, reports the Times of London. In...

Let me get an opinion on this one. I was talking to a relative of mine attending a liberal university, and she was mentioning that an essay question for an exam or writing assignment asked her to defend the idea of erasing citizenship and replacing it with denizenship, which is granting aliens the same rights as citizens, including voting, stuff like that. She too is a liberal, but I think it's crazy that people would take that idea seriously. Advocating the idea of redefining our citizenship in this nation to include official citizenship rights for even illegal aliens? I know...

If you haven't heard of this online forum, there's one called Democratic Underground, at www.democraticunderground.com It's basically a forum for the most far left lunatics to waste time on the internet griping about Bush and coming up with conspiracy theories about how conservatives are going to kill them, nonsense like that. It also seems popular for them to talk trash about us at Free Republic, calling us insane. A friend and I discovered how fun it is going in there and talking trash about liberalism, and praising Bush, because apparently that falls under "bigotry" in their restrictive rules about what...

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Worried about the fairness of the upcoming U.S. presidential election, several House members have asked the United Nations to "deploy election observers" across the country. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson Recalling the contentious Florida vote count in 2000, the lawmakers urged the international body to "ensure free and fair elections in America," said a statement by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, who spearheaded the effort, Agence France-Presse reported. The letter was signed by nine members of Congress. "As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential...

Today I received an email response from Senator John Edwards (D-NC) in respect to an email I sent expressing my concern about the assault weapons ban renewal and urging him to fight the renewal. His response is typical of the liberal/moderate crowd who cleaim the Second Amendment only pertains to hunting and sports shooting. This email helped me realize how easily this dangerous idea of the Second Amendment is packaged to the generally gullible American public in nice, comforting words. So for your informational purposes, I submit this email in hopes that those of us who cherish the Bill of...