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A couple years ago, or so, someone posted a very funny story of a homework assignment. Two students, a male and a female, had to write alternate paragraphs to create a story about alien contact with earth. The girl wanted to make it a peace and love story, the boy wanted a story of a battle with the hostile aliens. It was very funny and I think was a true story. Anyone remember it? My kid wants to use it for a homework assignment. Also, recently someone posted a little thing where you count the "f's" in a line of...

16th of June DEFEATING DEPRESSION PART 1 “Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad” Proverbs 12:25 Depression- from Webster’s New Unabridged Dictionary Low spirits, gloominess, dejection, sadness, a decrease in force, or activity, or amount, a decrease in functional activity. An emotional condition either normal or pathological characterized by discouragement, a feeling of inadequacy, the act of humbling abasement as a depression of pride. Abasement, reduction, sinking, fall, humiliation, dejection, melancholy. Major Depression Facts Major depression is the No.1 psychological disorder in the western world.(1) It is growing in all age groups,...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2006 -- Two military relief agencies received a total of $30,000 here yesterday, the proceeds of a July clay shooting event in New York. John O'Connor (center), president of the Pawling Mountain Club, presents a check to Retired Sgt. Maj. Steve Broadway (left), of Army Emergency Relief. John Alexander, a representative of the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, looks at the check he just received. O'Connor's club sponsored the Pawling Mountain Invitational sporting clay event, which raised about $30,000 in donations for the two organizations. Photo by Samantha L. Quigley  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The...

Possible virus problem: Keyboard acting funny; numeric key "four" not working, "dollar" not working either. Login screens acting funny as well; i.e. Login to Yahoo mail password field numerics either not entering or returning to start of password field, and arrow keys not working.

td> Soldiers Help Citizens of Southwest Baghdad Multi-National Division – Baghdad soldiers delivered five tons of humanitarian- assistance supplies to a southwestern Baghdad neighborhood. By 2nd Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs Office, 1st Armored Division BAGHDAD, Aug. 22, 2006 -- Soldiers from Company B, 47th Forward Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 1st Armored Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, delivered five tons of humanitarian-assistance supplies to the Neighborhood Advisory Council building in the southwestern Baghdad neighborhood of Ameriyah Aug. 15. The soldiers have been performing operations in this southwest section of Baghdad since Aug. 13. Vehicle traffic has been...

If you ask anyone around Hillary Clinton the question that everyone is asking, the answer comes back in a shot: The freshman Senator from New York is far too busy concentrating on her re-election in November to be giving even a passing thought to 2008. Thank you very much. But politics is ultimately a game of logistics, and the junior Senator is putting the machinery in place for a campaign that looks far grander than a re-election cakewalk in New York. All it will need is for someone to throw the switch. Against virtually nonexistent opposition for her Senate seat,...

Those who have experiences...Any idea how to start a new private school where character and integrity counts and be taught?

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (NNS) -- The Army Corps of Engineers (ACoE) has been augmented this summer by some senior enlisted Navy leaders who volunteered as individual augmentees to help rebuild cities within the Al-Anbar Province in western Iraq. Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handler) (AW/SW) Michael Yule, who three months ago was teaching at the Center for Navy Leadership in Little Creek, Va., has now found himself playing a vital role in the rebuilding of the provincial cities of Al-Asaad, Ramadi and Fallujah. "Right now, we're rebuilding more than 50 houses in Fallujah," said Yule, a native of Pittsburgh. "We're also...

One week vacation driving from San Francisco to Seattle Hoping FReepers can add suggestions and recommendations. Planning to travel the coastal highway but would like to know when to get off to see some great sites.

Can anyone post that animated image of the guy who is typing at his computer, and gets madder and madder until he starts banging his head on the keyboard until there's nothing left but a bloody stump? Help is appreciated. Thanks.

Dear friend: Do you want to see a Libertarian in Congress? Of course you do. And thanks to Tom DeLay, the Libertarian Party may have its best chance ever. A surprise opportunity has offered itself recently, and we need to exploit it. A federal judge has ruled that Tom DeLay’s name can not be replaced on November’s ballot with another Republican politician. Late last week, DeLay announced that he will withdraw his name, leaving only two candidates on the ballot: a liberal Democratic former congressman, and Libertarian Bob Smither. Bob is well known by the voters and media in this...

Pardon the Vanity, but I thought it might be good to post for not only myself but for others that did the same thing. Last night, when the link was posted on this forum, I went to see what Ahmadinejad's blog looks like. Only after I clicked on the thing and let it load did I happen to think -- wait a minute, I just clicked on a terrorist's website. What's to keep him from being a cyber terrorist. Then, today, I see this from Little Green Footballs http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22093_Ahmadinejads_Blog_is_Dangerous&only Last night, after I clicked, I deleted all cookies, offline content,...

I could use some help in figuring out how individuals,corporations,etc. might financially exploit Joe Biden's (and another questionable group's) plan to divide Iraq into 3 balkanized countries with one EU-like capitol in Baghdad, and "an equitable share of the oil revenues". I scent a big-ass weasel in the woodpile ! Who would gain-financially-from such a division,and how ? I'd appreciate any (non-political)ideas you might suggest.(I already dislike Biden,so I don't need schooling in that !)

Dear Freeper Community: if you might be interested in helping Israel but ask yourself "How? Who can I help? What can I do?" Please visit the link to my Freeper profile page. There you will find links to reputable and 501c (tax deductable organizations which provide aid to Israeli victims of the rocket war. All of these organizations are equipped to take internet donations via secure server. The organizations are separated by categories: food banksmedical reliefdirect aid Please consider a gift of any size. The Jewish people need your help. G-d will bless those who bless Israel. (Genesis 12:3)

Dear Free Republic Prayer Warriors: You have responded many times in recent years to my personal requests for prayers for my own family members and friends who were in need of healing. Today I ask for your prayers for Anna, the beloved wife of my friend, Massachusetts Freeper ThirstyMan. As some of you may know, Anna has been waging a courageous battle against breast cancer for several years. The cancer has returned and now Anna needs our prayers again. Please join me in praying for God's Healing Grace and Peace for Anna. And also for Strength and Peace for Thirstyman...

A Video tribute has been created by the SaveTheSoldiers.com honoring our heroic friends. The song is Superman by Five For Fighting... Visit Hero.savethesoldiers.com to view the video!

CAMP AL ASAD, Iraq (Aug. 8, 2006) -- When Army Maj. John W. Penree decided to pay his nephew, Marine Sgt. Peter A. Penree Jr., a visit in Iraq’s Al Anbar province, the timing couldn’t have been better. The circumstances, however, probably could have. Both men are currently deployed to Iraq – Penree Jr., serves with the Hawaii-based 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment in western Al Anbar Province; Maj. Penree with the Wiesbaden, Germany-based 3rd Corps Support Command in Balad, Iraq. Penree Jr., a 23-year-old Marine infantryman from Frankfort, N.Y., was wounded recently when a suicide bomber drove a truck...

Does anyone have an online copy of the TIME photo in the magazine's 31 July issue purporting to show a fire caused by "a downed Israeli jet"? No jet was downed, of course; a fire was caused by a ZelZal-2 ballistic missile struck by the IAF on its truck prior to launch, which went into the air and came down on fire. Hez had a video of it and claimed they had shot down a jet; the video was quickly debunked but TIME is on Hez's side, so they ran the fake photo/bogus caption bit.

My father passed away and he was a 100% disable vet of the army 23 years. The goverment told my mom that she does not get anything other than the life insurance money he had. She followed my dad around the world for 30 years and was not able to make a career for herself raising three boys. Does anyone know if this is true or not and if not and my mom is entitle to money from the goverment and help or if someone can point me in the right direction i would be really gratefull. He was my...

Out in Texas, Libertarian gubernatorial candidate James Werner is having trouble getting into a televised debate A href="http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2006/08/02/TopStories/Libertarian.Candidate.Wants.In.On.Debate-2142979.shtml?norewrite200608060649&sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com">(The Daily Texan): Libertarian gubernatorial candidate James Werner is asking public broadcaster KERA to include him in the gubernatorial debate in October. The Texas Debates, coordinated by KERA-North Texas, Univision and The Dallas Morning News, excluded Werner because he didn't meet the established debate criteria as a major candidate. Public broadcaster KERA came up with some excuses for not including Werner in the debate, saying it wasn't because of his party affiliation, but his lack of "newsworthiness": "It really has to do with...