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Welcome to the Name The New Guy Contest! We need to define him based on reality and not have some media concocted reality foisted on us. If you win you will have bragging rights for the next four years each and every time the name is used out among the media and masses. My entry: People have been calling him the empty suit and zero (0). Did Rush start that? Anyway, we can do better than that. Let's see, his upbringing was sponsored by taxpayers (welfare mom), his education was paid for by who knows, his entry into politics was...

Parade magazine published a cartoon caption contest today. I made 10 entries. Two of them I'm sure will absolutely NOT win. I figure folks here will enjoy them though. 1. Well DUH! Of course I'm voting for him ! These rumors you've been reading on the Internet of him being some old giant mutant rat are just that, rumors!2. Hey, I understand! OK? Sure I'm your friend and you're proud of that, but I know that if you're going to win this election you must deny me!

The McCain Campaign isn't competent enough to start it so it's up to Free Republic (again). We need to name the other 7 ObamaNation States! Obama lives in a different America than the rest of us. His has 57 states in it. What are those other 7 states? That is the job for you, Freepers. Let's name those states. And the winning states will be sent to the McCain Campaign so they can get a clue as to what it's like to be a Conservative or even be in the Republican Party (for those of us who are). And maybe...

WASHINGTON, July 29, 2008 – A Marine in Fallujah pens a song about standing watch. A sailor stationed in Hawaii scribbles a lullaby for his son while in the Iraqi desert. A soldier raps into a tape recorder to entertain his unit. Songwriters like these servicemembers were among the many who submitted their original songs to this year’s “Songs From the Soul of Service” songwriting contest. Air Force Capt. Steven Wilson was among hundreds of servicemembers who submitted original songs for the Dallas Songwriters Association's “Songs From the Soul of Service” amateur songwriting contest. Wilson submitted three songs, and...

Upload a video to YouTube telling us in two minutes or less why you are a Republican in 2008. We'll select the 5 most creative and compelling videos, and you get to vote for the winner. The deadline is August 1st, so submit your video today! Why Are You A Republican 2008?

Julia Galvin came to Finland looking for a man that would carry her 120 kg over a 253-metres track - the incentive being the chance to win the wife-carrying world title and beer worth her body weight. In the end the Irish woman was carried by an English man through a pool and across hurdles. She did not make the gold, but said she would keep trying until the title and the beer was hers. "I think I am worth carrying because I am a walking party," she said. Wife-carrying is one of a host of bizarre contests that Finns,...

I live in a land locked area so when I see news like this it makes me jealous. While I get to trek up mountains, carrying my owners lunch and drink on my back, these dogs get to go out and surf. Yeah, that’s right, surf. (This year was the 3rd Annual Loews Coronado Bay Resort Surf Dog Competition at Imperial Beach in California. These canines bring a whole new meaning to the term sea dog.) See last years winner on video...

The Israel Project by: Meagan Buren, April 07, 2008 The Israel Project (TIP) is pleased to invite all filmmakers, writers and other artists around the world with a passion for Israel to submit entries for a first-ever contest commemorating Israel’s founding 60 years ago. TIP will award a total of $20,000 to the winning submissions in each of the following formats: · Television Advertisement (30 seconds) · Video (30 seconds - 7 minutes) · Printable Flyer (8 ½ x 11 inches) Entries will be accepted in English, French, Spanish, German, Arabic and Russian and must be submitted March 31 –...

This is none other than Rhode Island’s best rooster crowing contest and in America, number one contest. The applause is a cut section of the applause in the song; King Jesus is a Listening All Night Long, by the 5 blind boys’ of Alabama. The characters are, Clara the RI Hen and Joe Beak RI rooster at left bottom and Sam Loud at bottom right. Voice of contestant #1 Joe Beak is real rooster sound and contestant #2 Sam Loud voice is of o7jimmy.

Love of country must always be qualified these days, lest anyone think you are unaware of slavery, insufficiently regulated railroad stock offerings, Lester Maddox or the attempt by Philip Morris to conceal the addictive nature of cigarettes. Say “I love this country” at a dinner table with strangers, and it’s like shave and a haircut without the two bits. But? But? We are an exceptional nation, to be sure, but you can’t leave it at that. We are exceptionally misguided, exceptionally lazy and xenophobic, shot through to the pith with bilious perfidy, and our sole redeeming quality is our ability...

We have had a lot of entries into this month's contest, and there is still a little time for you to get your name in the mix. If you are interested in winning copies of: Mark Levin’s Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover’s Story of Joy and AnguishLaura Ingraham’s Power to the PeopleGlenn Beck’s An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems It is very easy to enter. Just send me an e-mail (duane at allamericanblogger.com) that says "December Contest" in the subject bar. The contest ends on December 31, so there is not much time left. I promise...

Time to announce the December All-American Blogger Contest. This month it's a big one. This month we are giving way three books from three great talk radio hosts: Mark Levin's Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and AnguishLaura Ingraham's Power to the PeopleGlenn Beck's An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems To win this contest, all you have to do is send us an e-mail with "December Contest" in the subject line. That's it. If you have your own website, and you add us to your blogroll, you will get two entries in the contest...

Fellow FReepers, I have already asked many of you to cast a vote for me in the RacingJunk.Com Sponsorship Giveaway and now, if I can, I'd like to ask the same of all the other FReepers here. I am one of thirty racers with a shot at winning 15K in this. The voting runs from October 15th to November 15th. There is a signup process but it is FREE and pretty easy to negotiate through. The website is www.racingjunk.com: My name is Gene Hinders, I have the blue Ford Fairmont w/silver flames on the hood. I'd appreciate you taking the...

I don’t know how much simpler we can make this. You click on the “Contest” link at the top of the page, or even just click here. You fill out the form, which consists of your name and email address. We need that information so if you win we can write to you and say, “Hey Jerry - you won, where do we send the book?”.

IOWA CITY - The Hawkeyes play ISU this weekend. The University of Iowa is in the middle of "beat state week." But the school says it has had its fill of one contest in particular. Apparently there is such a thing as too much sweet corn. The University of Iowa was supposed to have a day of burgers and blues. Only the burgers were corn and the blues were more than music. There is a certain sadness that comes with the cancellation of a corn-eating contest. Shannon Thomas of the Alumni Association said, “There has been some disappointment about the...

September 17, 2007 is Constitution day. In celebration of the foundation of the greatest country in the history of man, we are giving away a copy of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution.

It was as if the tension would never end - but finally, eventually, painfully... Dec announced Paul Potts as the Britain's Got Talent winner. It was a moment where futures were made and dreams were dashed. But even though every one of the performers here has an outstanding talent, only one could scoop the big prize tonight. Two million votes were cast by the British public. For the big winner, welshman Paul Potts, tonight starts a week of newspaper interviews, magazine features and TV appearances. Life won't be quite the same ever again. As Ant and Dec congratulated the singer...

OTTAWA, June 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –The CBC has inadvertently allowed pro-life Canadians a voice on abortion, a rare opportunity in Canada’s largely pro-abortion media landscape. Online abortion advocates are complaining that the “Great Canadian Wish List,” a contest described by the CBC as a way for Canadians to express what they hope for the country, has been “highjacked” by “right-wingers,” “anti-choicers” and “fetus fetishizers”...in other words, Canadians wanting an end to abortion. Since abortion has been legalized in Canada, politicians and news editors have asserted that the issue is closed despite the consistent poll results showing that as many...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A 43-year-old German man was taken to hospital in critical condition after he fell off a second storey balcony during a spitting contest with his 12-year-old son, police said Friday. A spokesman for the police in the eastern town of Cottbus said the man in Forst had apparently lost his balance after thrusting too far forward in his attempt to outspit his son. He tumbled over the ledge and landed on a balcony of the ground floor apartment, police said. He was taken to hospital in a rescue helicopter.

HELSINKI, Finland - Serbia's Marija Serifovic sang a heart-wrenching power ballad to win the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest early Sunday — an annual extravaganza of pop, rock and circus acts featuring bare flesh and fiery pyrotechnics. Serifovic's ballad "Molitva," or "A Prayer," beat a glitzy drag show act from Ukraine and a Russian girl band to win the annual event. Voters from an estimated television viewing audience of 100 million across the continent picked their favorite performance by phone and text message. "All my life I have been singing and tonight this (victory) makes me very proud," said Serifovic, 22,...