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Is there are rumor out there that there was just hours ago an attempt on AOC's life? OR possibly a "plot" uncovered to do so, sort of like the Whitmer "kidnapping"?

Today's Belmont

I haven't found yet our usual FR Derby thread. I will start one,even though the race is a mere 5 hour away.

A friend of mine from Pennsylvania called me today to tell me of her visit to a local WalMart, where she patronizes a bank located within this Walmart. It was Woodforest Bank. She slowly got incensed having to watch Candy Crowley on the omnipresent CNN,while waiting in line, and decided to do something about it. She started a conversation, which went on quite a while, with a trucker standing in front of her who as it turned out was a classic Low Information Voter, and kept trying to defend Obama,who he knew not surprisingly anything about. This got her more...

There have been numerous radio ads for the past 2-3 weeks for the now very successful film "2016" For the first week at least the announcer said "From Academy-Award winning producer of Schindler's List, Gerald Molen". NOW, however, it's simply "from an Academy Award winning producer". Anybody have any thoughts as to why this has changed?

Did anyone else on FR enter his town to try to win the truckload of Rush's new product "Twoifbytea"?? He's been talking about it for over a week on the radio. The contest ended Wednesday the 29th at 6 PM, and had to be done on the online form at the twoifbytea website. Entrant had to make a case in about 3 paragraphs why their town would be a deserving recipient of the tea, which would be delivered by truck to their 4th of July celebration. THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED tomorrow on his show, my guess is toward or...

I need some information as to just what the early AP "test polls" mean, which have just started making the rounds in the last few days. We have a candidate in a NY Congressional district who glommed onto the first issuance of these numbers and is sending out emails claiming he's "ahead" in the polls. It looks like nearly everybody on the list of primary matchups is either at 55% or 45%. HOW do they get these numbers? Have they been doing actual small samplings by phone, of say, 100 or so people in each precinct, and then projecting the...

All our usual Triple Crown chat seems to have evaporated. Today is the Second Leg of the TC. A field of 12 goes postward at Pimlico today for the Preakness Stakes.

There was a thread that looked interesting, and I started to read it,had to leave it, and now it's gone. Dealt with a group somewhere naming themselves RESET 2010 Anybody remember it or have a link? Would be greatly appreciated.

My predictions of the Mass election,The RNC, and its repercussions.Off the top of my head.

I read a great post this AM, on my first visit to the FR site after waking up. I'd thought I'd saved it to my Favorites list, because I didn't have time to respond to it, which would at least have registered it on my PING list. It was QUITE LENGTHY, and made a great number of points about the need to eventually SHUT DOWN THIS GOVERNMENT. There were a great number of highly rhetorical and polemical points made, very carefully laid out. I do remember the line "Try NOT paying your Property Taxes ONCE!" among many others. I have...

News just on FOX: An Acorn Field Director has "flipped", is now working with Nevada Attorney General on case against ACORN. Nevada Acorn offices raided, field manuals on how to commit Voter Registration Fraud seized.

A friend of ours from PA. has a daughter who is now in Iraq. Just told us over the phone that when Obama's victory was announced, there was a lot of cheering to be heard everywhere in the vicinity. In her words, the American soldiers there are "scared shitless". Anyone have comparable reports?

There was a FReeper named "Jaysun" back in 2007 and early in 2008, who announced in February of this year that he had contracted some kind of cancer, and that the prognosis was NOT good. He received an outpouring of sympathy in that thread, from me also, who had "talked" to him in personal "FR mail" over some subject of other. His FR profile showed him posed with his new infant daughter. So it was ever so much more touching and hard to bear to hear and read him talking about not being long for this world. He made a...

I was just watching live running of the 11th race at Balmoral, having made an online bet, waiting patiently, minute after minute, then seeing nothing but a black screen and then an uncertainly transmitted voice of the announcer, saying "we are in total darkness. This race is cancelled/ there will be a total refund of all bets" No doubt his voice was being transmitted courtesy of a generator. ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE POWER OUTAGE IN CHICAGO?