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Update They will be going in through my stomach to remove my damaged disk. They will be inserting a metal cage to take its place. Then after I am closed, they will scrub down the entire operating room again and disinfect it. Then they are going to flip my on my stomach and cut my back open and insert screws, bone fragments and cement to fuse my spine where the disk is being removed. I have a really ugly brace to wear after surgery whenever I am out of bed walking around. The surgery will take 6-7 hours long, and...

In the past month, I have seen a shift in Free Republic that makes me wonder if there is a coup d'etat going on. I haven't got a count, but it seems there has been more sex-related posts than in the past months since I started coming here. There have been threads about the gay life style, sex slaves, sex toys, a guy killed after having sex with a horse, numerous porn threads, and more. It is making me sick. I participated in many of the posts because I felt my input was valuable. However, every time I participate, I...

TODAY AND Sunday, May 22, will be Beautiful Days for Philly fans of the Irish rock group U2, which will play at the Wachovia Center as part of the Vertigo Tour. In March, U2 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Fame. Deservedly so. As far as rock bands go, U2 deserves to be on Mount Rushmore, along with the Beatles, the Who and the Rolling Stones. The Beatles were the musical equivalent of Baseball's Sandy Koufax - six or seven dominant years of musical genius. U2 is more like Steve Carlton or Warren Spahn - consistent excellence over...