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FR has changed the donation site and all monthly donors who wish to continue should re-input their information on the new site. Badjoe last ran the FR support monthlies September 20th. It is now October 21 so you are now out of danger of being hit twice in one month. : ) If you have not gone to the new site and re-entered your information your monthly has stopped. Now I know you don't want that to happen it, so please go HERE to re-up. The next Freepathon will come sooner and last longer if you don't do this now....

Badger, California A Muslim village near this Sierra Nevada foothill community has been disbanded, with its residents leaving behind empty homes, a troubled charter school and about $470,000 in back taxes and penalties. Displayed at the deserted village of Baladullah, which means "City of God" in Arabic, on Thursday was a handwritten yard sale sign that read: "Everything must go." A woman running the yard sale, who did not want to be identified, would only say that everyone wasn't gone, but was "down the hill." The yard sale was near GateWay Academy, a charter school closed earlier this year after...

It doesn't get much better than this: Early evening on the restaurant patio, sunshine filtering through the leaves of the mimosa trees, big-chested chirping birds occasionally swooping down to snatch an invisible crumb from the ground, smiling food servers, excellent cocktails and appetizers, and wonderful Freeper friends gathering and talking and laughing. The cool breeze finally drove us inside, where warm good cheer kept us engaged for far longer than we had planned. This was a group of almost perfect strangers, joined by our love of country, our passion for liberty, and, of course, Free Republic. Attending the Freep Meet...

Seenenuf gathered the troops and descended on Badjoe & Willa's house for a barbeque feast and Freep Fest. Attending were seenenuf, Badjoe, WillaJohns, Diotima, dalereed, SoAmerRepublican, NYCityGal, OC-Flyfish, Texican and Mrs. Texican, Ernest-at-the-Beach, Khorkris, VeggieTodd, LedZep75, Pam, a lurker, Dr. Liberty, and Kevin. This was the first Orange County Chapter get-together in a year. We talked, we ate, we freeped, we talked some more, we made new friends, and decided we're going to do it again July 13. In the interim, we discussed becoming an activism chapter, talked about Simon's upcoming election and showing up at his Orange County appearance...

<p>A student group bows out of a Red Cross show rather than drop 'god' and 'prayer' from their songs.</p> <p>SANTA ANA -- A student group will not sing at a Red Cross event Sunday because the troupe's director says the charity barred the use of the words "god" and "prayer."</p>

The Power of X How the Best Thing for Apple, for Users, and Even for Microsoft, Would Be an Intel Version of OS X Jon Shirley, the only CEO of Microsoft to be universally identified as a grown-up, told me during his last week at the helm that the best thing that had ever happened for Microsoft's language business was Borland International and its language business. Borland, under the wacky Philippe Kahn, gave Microsoft fits. Borland languages were often better than Microsoft's, and always cheaper. The result was that Microsoft, even though it continued to be the larger player in ...

KHOST, AFGHANISTAN - Inside the dimly lit tent, the three US intelligence officials made it abundantly clear they didn't want the ensuing discussion to go beyond the gray canvas flaps. One of the men ran his index finger across his throat to make the point that there could be etribution if the secret got out. "Let's be clear from the start, none of this goes beyond our base," he told Lutfullah Mashal, who has been my interpreter, colleague, and loyal confidante for the past five months while I've reported from both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mr. Mashal is an Afghan, an ...

Blackout Program #1916 Original airdate: June 5, 2001 Produced and Directed by Michael Chandler Written by Michael Chandler and Lowell Bergman Correspondent Lowell Bergman &nbsp; NEWSCASTER: California's power supply came up short today, and the lights went out. ANNOUNCER: For the first time in 65 years, the electric power market is in chaos. Electricity rates are climbing, and not just in California, where the largest utility has gone belly-up. JEFFREY K. SKILLING, President and CEO, Enron: It is the most volatile commodity in the world. ANNOUNCER: The plague of blackouts that started on the West Coast could spread to New ...

<p>COSTA MESA -- A professor who has become a focal point for a national debate about academic freedom will return to class in January, after an investigator found that allegations by Muslim students who said he called them terrorists were mostly unsubstantiated.</p>

<p>TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Taiwanese president's party - which is distrusted by China - grabbed the largest number of seats in legislative elections Saturday, a victory that could pressure Beijing to start talking with the island's leader.</p> <p>In a once-unthinkable reversal, the formerly banned Democratic Progressive Party of President Chen Shui-bian snapped the Nationalist Party's five-decade grip on the 225-seat legislature.</p>

It's kind of comforting to know that even in these troubled times, some of our public officials are still capable of making us laugh. Consider, for example, their crackdown on Glenn McElroy and his turkeys. Maybe you saw this on the news. Glenn, 64, runs the Pick Your Part auto-salvage yards in Anaheim and various other California locations. As a promotional gimmick, Glenn bought 320 live, raised-for-the-table turkeys and announced plans to hand them out to customers. The idea was that customers could chase the turkeys around the salvage yards, and if they caught one--not a particularly difficult task, given ...

The article is topped by a photograph captioned: Rob Reiner, left, chairman of the California Children and Families Commission, reads a book to children gathered Thursday at a news conference in Los Angeles. The organization announced the launch of a statewide education campaign for parents and caergivers of young children. Actors Andy Garcia, center, and Jamie Lee Curtis, who holds 3-year-old Alondra Juarez, attended the event in support of the effort--Photo: Nick UT/The Associated Press The article is as follows: The parents of every child born in California will receive a free, bilingual parenting kit in an unprecedented statewide education ...

<p>The Holy Land Foundation gives money to widows, orphans and refugees.</p> <p>An Islamic charity that raised more than $30 million for Middle Eastern widows, orphans and refugees is under investigation for allegedly sending money to Palestinian terrorists.</p> <p>The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, whose top-paid fund-raiser lives in Buena Park, is being investigated by the New York and California attorneys general to determine if the group is financing suicide bombers and other terrorists, according to officials.</p>

<p>After 11 days of intensive investigation, a collective portrait has begun to emerge of the men who guided three planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and crashed a fourth in a field in Pennsylvania.</p> <p>It is sketchy and incomplete, but its disparate pieces show a group of seemingly well-educated young men who slipped into the United States and settled into bland suburban lives while they gained just enough training as pilots to take control of a passenger jet in midair.</p>

Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Inc. P.O. Box 270143 Hartford, WI 53027 Phone (262) 673-9745 Fax (262) 673-9746 September 3, 2001 If you really want to tell Jewish leaders to stop supporting police-state policies -- especially "gun control" -- then make sure you read this article and send it to every Jewish person you know in the world. If you don't share this with others, then you've forfeited your right to complain about Charlie Schumer! Do Jewish "leaders" want us all to be victims? By Aaron Zelman Executive Director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Are ...

FreeRepublic.com FREEPATHON Thread 57&nbsp; Previous Freepathon Threads &nbsp; Click here to donate now! When FreeRepublic succeeds, twill be cause of many good deeds by those who love liberty to save it for their posterity. &nbsp; by BadJoe &nbsp; &quot;A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.&quot; &quot;Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic&quot; - Frank Lloyd ...

When FreeRepublic succeeds, twill be cause of many good deeds by those who love liberty to save it for their posterity. Badjoe....

When FreeRepublic succeeds, 'twill be 'cause of many good deeds by those who love liberty to save it for their posterity.....Badjoe....

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