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I made a Petition to Pardon Charles Graner. It will be presented to President Bush. Thank you

I THINK PRESIDENT W SHOULD THROW EVERYONE WHO CRITISISES HIM IN JAIL! WE ARE AT WAR AND DISSENT LOWERS MORALE SO THEN WE COULD LOSE LIKE IN VIETNAM WHERE JOHN KERRY BETRAYED US! JUST LIKE EVERYONE HERE I AM A LOYAL GOP MEMBER WHO SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT IN EVERYTHING HE DOES! WHY IS TED KENNEDY NOT IN JAIL? JOHN KERRY IS A TRAITOR! BARBARA BOXER IS A TRAITOR! WE SHOULD THROW THEM IN JAIL! THERE IS A FORUM CALLED DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND THAT IS A PLACE WHERE ACTIONS AGAINST US ARE PLANNED, LET'S ARREST THEM ALL!

GWB's Brave New World. There, I said. Its a cliché that I can't avoid, and a cliché that happens to be, well, true. If you are a person of the politial persuasion who wishes government control our health care system, I'd advise you to be careful what you wish for -- you just might get it. It seems that not only does our "conservative" president have the honour of passing the largest piece of social welfare spending since Lyndon Johnson, with the government-funded prescription drug plan, he will most likely be the first President to wield medical science as a...

As a homeschooled individual, I think that the issue itself should be more publicized.

Our two countries are united by a friendship that goes back more than 200 years which makes France the oldest ally of the United States. Based on solidarity that has never failed, from the battlefields of Yorktown to the beaches of Normandy and through all the crises of the past half century, the friendship between our two countries is especially strong because it is rooted in shared values. The American dream of the Founding Fathers melds readily with the ideals of the French Revolution. It is no accident that an American woman and a Frenchman, Eleanor Roosevelt and René Cassin,...

Well I am just posting this because I want to state my opinion on politics from a European point of view, not from Germany, France, UK. I have been going to business school in the US. This have taught me a lot about whats good and whats bad about both my country and the US. You know you always learn something new when you travel. You will find that some of your solutions to solving problems in tour country is suprior and some are inferior. So this is the way I want a country to be runned. I want a...

Post the latest OUTRAGEOUS things being done against God and Christmas ther you hear of here... A Kid was SUSPENDED indefintley from his school for saying God Bless, in his morning announcments. A Teacher was fined for refusing to take down a banner that Read Merry Christmas...yet the jewish teacher next to her had a menorah

The survey found that 56 percent of the country now believes that the cost of the conflict in Iraq outweighs the benefits, while 42 percent disagreed. It marked the first time since the war began that a clear majority of Americans have judged the war to have been a mistake.

why do people keep banning me everytime I put up interesting articles? I work for a website I think some of you are familiar with called phantirath weekly world news and each time we put somthing up on FR no matter how conservative it is it keeps getting banned. Whats the matter with it?! Damn man what are you marxist socialists communists? I just got a call this mroning from a Juwish friend of mine who said that you banned an important article about Zionism and Noam Federman and about how we were to support israel. I thought you guys...

For the past 25 years when Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, why did Saddam Hussein not use those weapons of mass destruction against the US or Israel, or hand them over to the Al-Qaeda terrorists or the terrorists in the west bank, even though during the past 25 years, on and off, the following were done which angered and humiliated Saddam Hussein (1) Israel destroyed Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactors in the 80s (2) Through the Iran-Contra scandal, the US supplied arms to Iran in the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s (3) In the 90s, the US ousted Saddam...

I'M SORRY I didn't vote for Ralph Nader. Yes, I know it would have been a quixotic gesture, and on some moral level a wasted vote in support of the despicable incumbent. But at least I wouldn't be burdened with the embarrassment of having voted for the great equivocator from Massachusetts, who disgraced himself with his hasty concession to George Bush on Nov. 3. The question just hangs there, unanswered: Why did John Kerry capitulate so quickly, after so many people -- especially poor people -- had braved long lines, cold rainy weather and Republican intimidation to record their opposition...

I saw this on CNBC at 6 p.m., couldn't believe what I was hearing, and am stunned this hasn't been posted yet. Triple-checked to make sure it hasn't (pls remove if it has). Zogby said he was calling the popular vote for Kerry because the undecideds were breaking for him. This would seem to counter his own polling data!! Could this be the first wrong call of 2004???

Putin: Ally or Terrorist? by William F. Jasper Counting Vladimir Putin as an ally against terrorism ignores his career in the murderous KGB/FSB and his ongoing support for terrorist regimes and organizations. ‘‘Lena Goncharuk, aged 38, said that she was the only one to survive out of a group of six who were ordered out of the cellar where they had been hiding and shot at point blank range. Resting in her hospital bed, her voice barely rising above a whisper, she said she had survived only by pretending to be dead." So reported Paul Wood from the Chechen border...

Don't get me wrong. I live in the south, and I love the south. I spend my Saturday afternoons watching the Georgia Bulldogs and other southern college football teams; I enjoy true quality peaches and real grapes known as scuppernongs; I eat my fatback and grits; and the people are very nice. I simply disagree with them about politics and religion. The political beliefs of white southerners drag this country down. It has always been this way throughout American history starting with the issue of slavery. Most northern states gave up slavery as early as 1800, but for economic reasons,...

Media View Kitty Kelley's Bush Book With Caution By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 8, 2004; Page C01 It is the book that some Republicans have been worrying about for weeks, filled with lurid allegations by a celebrity biographer whose controversial reputation has only boosted her sales. Kitty Kelley's volume on the Bush family won't be published until next week, but the White House communications director yesterday dismissed the book as "garbage" and a Republican National Committee spokeswoman said journalists should treat it as "fiction." With the author booked for numerous television interviews -- including three straight...

Ford Upset by Web Ad Showing Decapitation Sun Apr 18, 7:14 PM ET Add Technology - AP to My Yahoo! DEARBORN, Mich. - Ford Motor Co. is upset by the release of an Internet advertisement that depicts the decapitation of a computer-animated cat by a power moonroof hatch, saying it didn't authorize the clip. The ad for the Sportka, a hatchback sold in Europe, shows the realistic-looking orange cat climbing on top of the car and poking its head into the open moonroof, The Detroit News reported Sunday. The hatch slides closed, the cat struggles briefly and its headless body...

<p>Twenty years after shaking hands with the "Baghdad Butcher", Donald Rumsfeld is at it again. Last month he was spotted chatting up the new dictator of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.</p> <p>Given that Donny was one of the original signatories to a 1997 statement calling for the US "to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad", one might assume that he was really in Azerbaijan to talk about the well documented election fraud in that country. Or Rumsfeld could have questioned Aliyev about the arrest and torture of hundreds of oppostion leaders shortly after the elections in October. A more aggressive move would be to inform the "baby dictator" of a cut-off in the "$3 million a year in military aid" to fund, what the Washington Post refers to as "peacekeeping-training and education programs" (Read: School of the Assassins ).</p>

Up yours. Would it be OK for me to use language like that? Or does it all depend? Should I check with you first? I ask only for information. posted on 05/02/2003 9:21 PM PDT by Romulus To: Romulus Well, we'll see if a moderator bans me or deletes the post. But either way, I'm not particulaly [sic] proud of the post. Just one of my infamous trademark partings with an antifreeper. posted on 05/02/2003 9:26 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Anglers from northern Europe are using live kittens for bait while fishing in the Po river for the gigantic sheat-fish, according to police. Giuseppe Lagana, a police officer in Mantua in the Po valley, said that the first case was detected in May. But Mr Lagana, who doubles as a commander with Ampana, Italy's voluntary nature protection force, said the incident was not isolated. "We've received a lot of indications that there are other such cases," he said. "During one of our last nocturnal patrols, one boat managed to evade our checks. It ignored warnings and cleared off with its...

I was flipping around the radio dial one afternoon when I heard a familiar voice. The last time I heard that voice was to the accompaniment of a leering grin and towels snapping in a locker room. "Gotcha!" the voice had been saying. Snap! "Gotcha good, didn't I, queer?" Snap! "That'll teach you to mess with Mike." Mike was the terror of my high school locker room. Snapping towels at young boys' private parts. Getting freshmen in a headlock and rubbing their faces in his armpits. Calling all the boys "queers!" and "wimps!" He was a class act then. Now...