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Hi, I'm fairly new to FR, and there are some terms I'm confused about. I have an idea, but I want to make sure I have it right. Bump-does it stand for anything? Ping-Pass it on to the next guy? Any other FR terms I should know?

Hate the Bushes if you like but mind how you do it By Alec Russell (Filed: 06/12/2003) Many in Europe believe that America after September 11 will not brook an angry word against George W Bush. Well, those days are now over - at least as long as you follow American etiquette in how to hate a president. Mr Bush on the Time cover Denouncing Mr Bush is the latest trend to dominate the talk shows. This week the anger industry moved into new territory with the launch of Michigan's equivalent of the "Calendar Girls". "Babes Against Bush" is a...

How much do you hate Israel? By Diana Appelbaum, November 18, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms How much do you hate Israel? Enough to go every day to www.petitiononline.com and type hate-filled remarks into all petitions supportive of Israel? Somebody out there hates Israel that much. I recently mounted a modest petition campaign, A Call to the King of Saudi Arabia to Recognize Israel. My hope is to shame Saudi Arabia into recognizing Israel by presenting the collected signatures to Saudi Embassies around the world on Israel Independence Day, May 2004. It is, after all, uncommon for countries not to have diplomatic...

Meet Joe Dirt Stuart K. Hayashi In 2001, comedian David Spade came out with a movie titled "The Adventures of Joe Dirt." It now appears that the film was about Joe Conason, the author of "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth" and an editorialist for the liberal-biased Salon.com. In the person of Brad Pitt, you've already Met Joe Black. Now Meet the Real Joe Dirt. His book purports to expose how right-wingers harness the corporate media to brainwash society. Instead of demonstrating such, however, Joe is too busy flinging his Dirt around. In two...

HERE’S HOW IT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED There is a simple way we can still use our numbers to move THE TEN COMMANDMENTS back to the lobby of the Courthouse in Montgomery. Volunteers should be organized to appear in pairs in the lobby of the Court House in Montgomery day in and day out on a never ending basis. Volunteers will be armed with nothing more than a set of type written notes containing the words of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. It will be the job of volunteers to stand and recite the words ‘aloud’ from memory in shifts from the time...

This will be posted on the Bush Country.org website tomorrow. Please forward to Conservative/Christian supporters in Montgomery Alabama. How To Keep The 10 Commandments In Judge Moore's Montgomery Courtroom HERE’S HOW IT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED In the event the ‘ROCK’ is removed and it looks like it can not stay long, there is a simple way we can still use our numbers to keep THE TEN COMMANDMENTS from ever leaving the lobby of the Courthouse in Montgomery without raising a single hand to stop the physical removal of “Roy’s Rock”. Volunteers should be organized to appear in pairs in the...

Not long ago, I was having lunch in a KFC in Harlem, sitting near eight African-American boys, aged about 14. Since 1) it was 1:30 on a school day, 2) they were carrying book bags, and 3) they seemed to be in no hurry, I assumed they were skipping school. They were extremely loud and unruly, tossing food at one another and leaving it on the floor. Black people ran the restaurant and made up the bulk of the customers, but it was hard to see much healthy “black community” here. After repeatedly warning the boys to stop throwing food...

This intricate mosaic floor, featuring a masked young man from the Greek comic theater, is one of more than 100,000 artifacts uncovered by archaeologists at the ancient Israelite seaport site of Dor. (Credit: Gabi Laron) How great was Alexander? By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations | 12 June 2003 BERKELEY – Alexander the Great may not have been so great after all. A University of California, Berkeley-led group of researchers is challenging the common history that credits the Macedonian king with initiating the spread of ancient Greek culture throughout the Middle East during his conquest of the region during the...

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 Strike The Root There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.   It's NOT a Democracyby Joseph S. Bommarito The public education system teaches that we live in a democracy, in which the government is ruled by the majority. The founders of the country were students of government and knew that democracy was essentially mob rule with a thin veneer of legality and that the democracies of history had failed. No self-respecting person of that era would call himself a democrat. A pre-Revolutionary statement by an anonymous Bostonian reflected...

This is how to halve the crime rate: so why aren't we doing it? (Filed: 15/09/2002) The American approach to law enforcement has long been ridiculed as barbaric, pointless and expensive. But, as Alasdair Palmer and Charles Laurence in New York report, putting people behind bars works On April 24, when concern over street robberies was at its height, Tony Blair told the House of Commons that "we will bring street crime under control by the end of September". It is now the middle of September, and figures released last week by the Home Office indicated that street crime has...

Link post: Geology Picture of the Week, July 28-August 4, 2002 (Where is it? challenge)

A challenge this week. (Cheating is not fair!) Name the location of this picture and the phenomenon that caused it. I found this in an area on a site I visit frequently, and it has some spectacular photos and videos. The link is in the header, but you should post your guess before you go there to check it out.