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Historical Benghazi Report Now On Audio! Partisan Politics or 2 Presidential Cover Ups?

If anyone watched the Fox News report titled, "Socks, Papers, Scissors" hosted by David Asman, the conclusion was that the Justice Department was aware that Berger stole and destroyed some of the most sensitive documents in the National Archives - and yet failed to notify the 911 Commission priof to Berger testifying. Berger was sworn in under oath - and gave his testimony to the commission who was unaware of what he did? It wasn't until much later that they were told - after the report was printed and distributed. A commission member said he was shocked to hear that...

A man arrested in Thailand is being held in connection with the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, law enforcement officials said today. Federal officials familiar with the case, who spoke with the Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said the man was being held in Bangkok on unrelated sex charges. A source close to the case identified the suspect as one-time resident of Conyers, Ga., and said he was a school teacher. The source said that authorities had been focusing on him for some time and that Patsy Ramsey had been made aware prior to her death on June 24 that...

STOCKHOLM -- Idiots in the office are just as hazardous to your health as cigarettes, caffeine or greasy food, an eye-opening new study reveals. In fact, those dopes can kill you! Stress is one of the top causes of heart attacks -- and working with stupid people on a daily basis is one of the deadliest forms of stress, according to researchers at Sweden's Lindbergh University Medical Center. The author of the study, Dr. Dagmar Andersson, says her team studied 500 heart attack patients, and were puzzled to find 62 percent had relatively few of the physical risk factors commonly...

Click on the link above for an extremely moving montage of our soldiers in Iraq - Suitable for e-mailing to friends. Here is the link: http://www.clermontyellow.accountsupport.com/flash/UntilThen.swf

June 7 issue - There it is, that good old pale blue dot in all its earthly glory, right there on your computer screen. It's a familiar sight, even from a sky-high perspective experienced only by astronauts and angels. But hold on. By mousing around and clicking, you swoop like Superman, down, down, down, to a location on terra firma. Coastlines and rivers come into view, then cities, houses and even cars. And then, with another mouseclick, you can see the roads labeled, highlight the high-crime areas and locate the nearest Chinese restaurant. (The photography is provided by a combination...

I thought I had all the answers regarding politics until my one of my teen aged sons asked me (and yes, I'm proud to say both of them are conservative) why large cities tend to vote Democrat, and rural areas - or mostly the rest of the country, Republican? Can I get some opinions out there?

With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week. Larry Le Prise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey", died peacfully at age 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in... And then the trouble started.

Does anyone know if anything has happened or is going to happen with Sandy Berger's stolen and destroyed government high-classified documents? I'm guessing that the Justice Department (Ashcroft) would be responsible for charging him with anything. To tell you the truth, I don't have very much confidence in him - what ever happened to Pardongate and all of the other Clinton crimes - Is anything going to happen with Rathergate? For some reason - he seems to avoid any prosecution that is politically oriented.

This seems to be a group like the Swift Boat Vets who are extremely opposed to John Edwards. Click here for the site and the ad or go to the link posted above - it's definitely worth watching. http://www.thetruthabouttriallawyers.com/ad.asp

BRICKLAYER'S ACCIDENT REPORT Possibly the funniest story in a while. This is a bricklayer's accident report, which was printed in the newsletter of the Australian equivalent of the Workers' Compensation board. This is a true story. Had this guy died, he'd have received a Darwin Award for sure.... Dear Sir: I am writing in response to your request for additional information in Block 3 of the accident report form. I put "poor planning" as the cause of my accident. You asked for a fuller explanation and I trust the following details will be sufficient. I am a bricklayer by trade....

During the Clinton era (shudder) - many here at Free Republic banded together to perform awesome e-mail and phone demonstrations - and we got a lot accomplished. Someone with the ability to post the CBS affiliates general managers or owners e-mail or phone number would make it very easy to do e-mail, fax or phone campaigns demonstrating our disgust with the rather biased memogate scandal. Perhaps if enough pressure was applied, they could get CBS to fire Rather. I believe if we organized and blasted e-mails, faxes and phone calls demanding Rather's resignation or threaten boycotts against the local affiliates...

Soccer players say president shouldn't exploit their success Updated: 10:15 p.m. ET Aug. 21, 2004ATHENS, Greece - Iraqi soccer players reacted angrily Friday after being told that their nation's Olympic participation was mentioned in TV commercial by the re-election campaign for President Bush. The players called on Bush to stop using them to win votes in the United States. “Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign,” midfielder Salih Sadir was quoted as saying. “He can find another way to advertise himself.” However, the Iraqi Olympic delegation accused journalists of deliberately provoking...

Too many Washington sources are telling us this, so it may be imminent. Israel is set to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, fearing that the Islamic regime will use atomic weapons on the Jewish state. Israel has long assumed the right of pre-emption -- that is, the right to attack and even make war with Arab states that are developing nuclear weapons. "They are ready to go," a top former American diplomat with close ties to Israel tells a source close to NewsMax. There have been mutterings that time is short and Israel will do to Iran what it did to...

Hundreds of fighters loyal to Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr have heeded his call to leave the city of Kufa. Before returning to their homes elsewhere in Iraq, the al-Sadr loyalists gathered for a rousing and jubilant Friday prayer at the Kufa mosque during which they proclaimed their continued support for the Shia leader. The unarmed fighters chanted outside the mosque that victory had been theirs and they could now return home. A recent ceasefire deal between al-Sadr supporters and US occupation forces ended weeks of fighting which had left hundreds of Shia fighters dead. They appeared to have interpreted the...

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One of our readers, a soldier who has served in Iraq, has contributed the following account of an engagement in which he was wounded several times. With the exception of minor editorial revisions, none of which alter in any way the substance of his account, the words are his. My company is fuel transportation. We are the Army Reserve 724th Transportation Company. But in Iraq we have civilian contractors Kellogg Brown and Root. They do all the fuel hauling. So we basically become force protection for convoys. Friday, April 9th, about 7 a.m., my platoon started getting ready for a...

I have yet to hear a logical explanation for the time lapse of over 13 hours from the time the executioner pulls out his knife to cut his head off, to the next scene where Nick Berg is on the ground struggling with his killers. The time goes from 2:44 to 13:45. One will also notice that the pictures then become very blurred and out of focus. At the beginning of the video, Berg is sitting alone in his chair at 13:26, then goes back to 2:18, then back to 2:40. Throughout Berg's narration, he seems relatively calm - as...

Do you think the Bush administration or the Clinton administration is more to blame for not preventing the September 11, 2001 attacks? Apparently 65% of the people polled do. Only 35% at this point blame Clinton. Go the the link http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4767236/ and scroll about half way down the page for the poll. Weigh in on your thoughts!

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind. I lost my job this past year. When Clinton was president I was secure and prosperous, but in the last year, we had to close our operations. We simply could not compete with foreign labor. This foreign labor worked for low pay under very bad conditions. They worked very long shifts, and many even died on the job. This competition could hardly be called "fair." I was forced out of the place where I had worked for 34 years. Not a single government program was there to help me....