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Steven Slater, the flight attendant who slid from an airplane to fame last week, now employs the services of one of Hollywood's top public relations representatives. Howard Bragman, Chairman of media and public relations agency Fifteen Minutes, confirmed to CNN that he is now representing Slater and will help him assess offers to appear in proposed television programs inspired by Slater's dramatic exit from a JetBlue plane at New York's Kennedy Airport after he cursed a passenger over the public address system and deployed the emergency slide. "There are probably 25 reality show offers on the table at this point,"...

Americans who find themselves frustrated with the mainstream media's one-sided coverage (i.e. not ours) of the war in Iraq, as well as wider events in the Middle East, have had to turn to the Internet to get a fuller picture of what's going on. Whether it's milbloggers, dispatches from independent journalists such as Michael Yon, talk radio interviews with those on the frontlines, or the fact-checking of online journalists and the blogosphere, alternative forms of media have proven to be the best source for informative and unbiased coverage of the war on terrorism. To that end, the grassroots conservative forum...

First vanity post: The Administrator of FR has made it clear that my posts are no longer wanted here. They have been erased for reasons unclear with the Administrator being incredibly disingenuous about "spamming". I posted a picture twice and IMHO that is not spamming. It is not worth wasting further effort here, in that light. In any case, I wish the best to FReepers and want to thank you all for teaching us so much. I am especially grateful to Jim Robinson for the wonderful opportunity to have posted so many hundreds of pictures glorifying the good deeds of...

No US Casulaties in 7 days. A U.S. Army soldier trains a new Iraqi fire fighter at a U.S. Army base in Mosul, 400 km (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Monday, September 8, 2003. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze The shadows of U.S. soldiers are cast on a wall as they guard an Iraqi detainee after an early morning raid in Tikrit September 8, 2003. U.S. soldiers came under attack in Baghdad and rounded up suspected guerrillas in Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s hometown Monday as President George W. Bush (news - web sites) prepared Americans...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/27/03 - Baghdad, Sarqat, Chamchamal, Fayda, Qushtapa,Tapa Korra, Dohuk,I rbil, Kalak, Qoratu BREAKING: Baghdad.- Evil to Dust BREAKING: Chamchamal - Coalition warplanes attack BREAKING: Fayda, Qushtapa, Tapa Korra BREAKING: Dohuk, Irbil, Kalak, Qoratu BREAKING: Sarqat - Ansar al-Islam ========= Chamchamal ========= In Chamchamal, Coalition warplanes pound front-line Iraqi positions. In Chamchamal, a Kurd security guard shows a terrorist bomber's belt filled with TNT made by Ansar i-Islam. Near Chamchamal, Kurdish militia. ========= Sarqat ========= THE FACE OF THE ENEMY In Sarqat, an Ansar al-Islam [al-Qaeda] terrorist. ========= Fayda ========= Fayda, controlled by...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/26/03 - STRIKE VIDEOS, Baghdad, Karbala, Najaf, Yousifiya, Nasiriyah, Basra BREAKING: STRIKE VIDEOS Iraqi GPS jammer destroyed Iraqi patrol boat destroyed R republican guard tank destroyed BREAKING: STRIKE IMAGES Palace guard facility Special Security facility Iraqi Intelligence facility BREAKING: IMAGES OF FREEDOM THE MEDIA MAY HAVE MISSED Baghdad - Saddam as Palace as Ozymandius Baghdad - War Crimes against Civilians Baghdad - War Crimes against the Iraqi people Baghdad - War Crimes against POWs Baghdad - Shuffle at the top Karbala - Incredible weather Najaf, Yousifiya Nasiriyah - Ambush of Heroes Southern...