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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. Chevron Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit climbed 20 percent to $4.14 billion, a company record that continued the most prosperous stretch in the oil company's 126-year history as it capitalizes on high fuel prices that are squeezing consumers and ruffling politicians. Its profit of $14.1 billion for the full year was also a company record. The San Ramon, Calif.-based company's earnings for 2005's final quarter, released Friday, represented the most it has made in any three-month period since its inception in 1879. The performance edged the $4.13 billion earned during the second quarter...

Christians Arrested Eleven Christians Arrested, Jailed, and Charged Under Hate Crimes Legislation To: National Desk PHILADELPHIA, PA. Oct. 11/Covenant News Wire Service/ -- On Sunday, October 10, 2004, eleven Christians with the Philadelphia-based Repent America were arrested, jailed, and charged under hate crimes legislation during an evangelistic outreach at the annual "OutFest" homosexual pride event held in the public streets of Philadelphia. The six men and five women representing Repent America approached the event and were immediately confronted with unlawful opposition by a group of homosexuals. This group, the “Pink Angels”, was formed by homosexual attorney Chuck Volz, a senior...

SHOULD THE U.S. GIVE WEAPONS INSPECTORS IN IRAQ MORE TIME BEYOND THE PRESIDENT'S CURRENT MARCH 17th DEADLINE?

To: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Michael Reagan, Glenn Beck In signing this petition, I am giving my support for a united effort by conservative talk hosts to win back America from the left. It’s time to turn the silent majority into the deafening majority. We the undersigned believe that the time is now for people who love America to raise our voice and make it known to all that we are tired of seeing the United States sold out from under us. We would like to see Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Michael Reagan, Glenn Beck, and...

SHOULD CHILDREN IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS BE ALLOWED TO CITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE? 68.8% NO 31.1% YES

This is not a news article yet because I haven't decided wether or not I should give the video to ABC yet. We live in the outskirts of Spokane, WA. Houses here and there on 10 acre parcels. For three days in a row (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) a small private aircraft has been flying around our area circling around, and even buzzing a house! The aircraft is a small red single-engine plane, with no visible markings. (There appears to be small numbers on the tail, but they are nowhere near the FAA required 12" size) When it buzzed the house,...

SPOKANE, WA, April 19 - Shooting in Suncrest has one deputy behind bars, two others with law enforcement ties being sought. Original story HERE Late Friday, Stevens County officers arrested deputy Will Clark for reckless endangerment, obstructing, and possession of an unlawful weapon. The charges stem from a shooting early Tuesday morning, in which as many as 50 rounds were fired in the Suncrest neighborhood. No one was hurt, but one of the bullets sailed through the family room in Dave Granlund's house, just a few feet above the couch. It went through a birdhouse too, ending up lodged in...

SPOKANE, WA, April 17 - Dan Granlund's Suncrest home doesn't look the way it did last week. That's because the Grandlund family's property was defaced by bullets early Tuesday morning. No one was hurt, but one of the bullets sailed through the family room just a few feet above the couch. It went through a birdhouse too, ending up lodged in a bedroom. Granlund's son was sleeping just five feet from where the hole was found. Neighbors say it was close to 2:30 Tuesday morning when they heard three rounds of what sounded like automatic gunfire. Witnesses say the shots...

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The fastest, most accurate ignition system ever developed. The firearms and ammunition of the future are here now. Our revolutionary EtronX™ System is the most significant advancement in rifle and ammunition performance since smokeless powder. For the first time, cased centerfire cartridges are fired by a completely non-mechanical system that ignites primers by means of an electrical pulse. Ignition is virtually instantaneous. And the result is accuracy many never thought possible. It will improve your shooting in an instant. (Okay, .0000027 seconds, but who’s counting?) Here’s how the Model 700™ EtronX™ works: The electronic fire control has no moving ...

Should the US threaten the Taliban with Nuclear weapon retaliation?

<p>WASHINGTON — The besieged Postal Service continued spot checks at facilities nationwide Friday as a State Department mail handler lay ill with inhalation anthrax and the nation's bioterror scare widened.</p> <p>"We still don't know who is responsible," said Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge Thursday at the White House.</p>

Leonid Predictionsfor 2001 New mathematical models were introduced during 1999 which successfully predicted the date and times the Leonid meteor stream would reach maximum hourly rates in 1999 and 2000. Unfortunately, these same models failed to adequately model the intensity of the displays in 1999 and 2000. Now, after the analysis of the 1999 and 2000 displays, astronomers believe they have a better understanding of the shape and particle distribution within the various streams of debris left behind by comet Tempel-Tuttle--the parent comet of the Leonids. Most of this page contains a history of the predictions of Leonid activity&#59; ...

I just recently started posting here at Free Republic, and noticed some nomenclature I'm not familiar with. And so, I'd like to request some definitions and usage of some of the nomenclature I've seen. Also, if you know of other common Free Republic nomenclature, please post it here so that I and other newbies can learn the language. The first thing I've seen several times is that after many articles, some people will reply by simply saying: "Bump" I'm sure this article may also get some replies as such as a joke. But what exactly would it mean if I ...