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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire from sight and afterwards return again. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson And so it happens again today, as it has through a lifetime, with the first Major League Baseball players returning to sight after retiring for a winter. All is good with the world again. It begins in Florida and in Arizona, with pitchers and catchers for eight teams reporting this afternoon to their respective Spring Training camps. Leading the way this year are the Tigers, Orioles, Rangers, Angels, Mariners, Cubs, Dodgers and...

Hi Ya'll My family is a long line of Freepers. Due to anti freepers Mom no longer posts here. I am currently busy with my studies in Catholic Catechism and working on my Holy Confirmation. I also am busy with my studies of Marine Biology at OSU. Some may reconize me from the pics. I try to have a good time when not boring my assist/careproviders with studies. I would like to kick of Valentines Day with some fun. Here is what I did... (this is a special Lady and life long freind who I called upon to let her...

Petrol prices 'to rise steeply until spring' By David Derbyshire, Consumer Affairs Editor (Filed: 21/01/2006) Motorists should be braced for yet more steep rises in the price of petrol over the coming months, the AA Motoring Trust warned yesterday. The cost of a litre of unleaded was likely to rise above 90p within weeks and could well shoot up further, a spokesman said. The warning came as the trust published a report into the spiralling cost of fuel. Petrol and diesel prices started the New Year about 10p per litre higher than in January 2005, it said. With the average...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

Waterspout taps into an old spring of republicanism By Tom Peterkin, Ireland Correspondent (Filed: 29/10/2005) An apparently innocuous waterspout given to a small market town after it suffered from crop failure would appear to be an unlikely symbol of English colonial oppression. But plans to restore a 19th century limestone well in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, have re-ignited ancient Anglo-Irish animosities. A £27,000 proposal to refurbish the spout and reinstate a plaque commemorating the "unparalleled benevolence of the English nation to the poor of Ireland" has outraged republicans, still smarting from the treatment of Irish peasants during the Great Famine of...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 27, 2005 – A "fairly substantial" withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq could take place next spring or summer if the insurgency doesn't grow and the country's political process continues as scheduled, the commander of coalition forces said here today. U.S. Army Gen. George W. Casey, head of Multinational Force Iraq, spoke during a surprise visit to Iraq by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. At a later joint news conference with Rumsfeld, Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari said the departure of U.S. forces from his country depends on how soon Iraq can train, equip and field its...

Whites-only group looking to recruit members (Update, Spring Lake, May 24, 2005, 11:50 a.m.) It's a new group looking to recruit new members, and it has just one requirement. You have to be white. The group goes by the name White Voices of America, a whites-only group calling for fair and equal treatment of white people in West Michigan. The group has been busy passing out flyers in Spring Lake, Ferrysburg, and Grand Haven. Joel Toppen is with the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance. Several people in the tri-cities area have expressed concern to the police about the group's activity. Members...

Quake that triggered Indonesian tsunami affected Japan's hot springs An earthquake off Sumatra that triggered a devastating tsunami in December last year caused changes in the water levels and temperatures of some hot springs in Japan that are 6,000 kilometers away from its focus, seismologists have concluded. The finding has demonstrated the scale and intensity of the earthquake that left thousands of people dead in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and other countries. A group of seismologists led by Tottori University Prof. Ryohei Nishida will present the results of their research at the 2005 Joint Meeting for Earth and Planetary Science...

WASHINGTON -- Each spring, the robins are arriving in Wisconsin several days earlier than they did a decade ago. Endangered woodpeckers in North Carolina are laying their eggs about a week earlier than they did 20 years ago. And some of Washington, D.C.'s signature cherry trees bloom about a month earlier than they did a half-century ago. The first signs of spring are appearing earlier in the year, and a new study from Stanford University released Monday says man-made global warming is clearly to blame. Mother Nature has rushed spring forward by nearly 10 days worldwide, on average, in just...

Germans have a lot to look forward to this coming month. Even though the country's non-compensation policy will mean that workers will miss out on this year's May 1 holiday because it falls on a Sunday, there will be plenty of time for May-time frolicking: One-third of all German public holidays this year fall in the month of May. The holiday-filled month starts off with Christi Himmelfahrt (Ascension Day) on May 5, a holiday that conveniently always falls on a Thursday. Those with travel plans like to use the Friday - wedged in between the holiday and the weekend -...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: The President and First Lady are spending the weekend in Washington. They had no public appearances planned, but did come out together to make a statement about the passing of Pope John Paul II. THE WEEK AHEAD: On Monday, GWB welcomes Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko to the White House. President Yushchenko also will address the Congress next week. WH Press Secretary Scott McClellan said, "The President looks forward to welcoming President Yushchenko to the White House. His election was a landmark event in the history of liberty. And the Orange Revolution was inspiring to all...

HERE WE GO AGAIN.... Reminder to move clocks ahead one hour this weekend. Those of you in Hawaii, Arizona, and most of Indiana --- Never mind.

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

'Easter' Bunny Gives Way To 'Spring' Bunny Some Local Malls Go P.C. For Religious Holiday Customers at local area malls are being taken by surprise to find that the Easter Bunny they've come to know and love now has a new name. In fact, some local malls now refer to the Easter icon as the "Spring Bunny." However, some customers don't like the new trend. "It makes me sad, because I think Easter is really important. The message is important," Plano mother Deidra Klemm said. "And I think it's wrong to call him the Spring Bunny. Let's just say what...

Some Local Malls Go P.C. For Religious Holiday Customers at local area malls are being taken by surprised to find that the Easter Bunny they've come to know and love now has a new name. Easter Bunny With Children In fact, some local malls now refer to the Easter icon as the "Spring Bunny." However, some customers don't like the new trend. "It makes me sad, because I think Easter is really important. The message is important," Plano mother Deidra Klemm said. "And I think it's wrong to call him the Spring Bunny. Let's just say what he really is."...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

Today is the 21st of March. The first day of the most beautiful season of the year, spring, and we celebrate our new year along with the start of this season. Today is also the first day of Norooz. Persian new year starts on 21st of March every year. And I just wanted to take advantage of being on Freerepublic.com to share my happinness with you and wish you all the best. And I am hoping for a change in my country. I am wishing to have freedom in this coming year. And I wish prosperity for my people who...

In the years 2008 and 2012, those living in Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific, Mountain and Central time zones will see spring begin even earlier: on March 19. And in 2016, it will start on March 19 for the entire United States. There are a few reasons why seasonal dates can vary from year to year. 1. A year is not an even number of days and neither are the seasons. To try and achieve a value as close as possible to the exact length of the year, our Gregorian Calendar was constructed to give a close approximation to the...

Incursions by Turkish military jets into Greek air space have increased radically this year, with violations of the Athens Flight Information Region rising by 115 percent last month, compared to the monthly average for 2004. According to figures made public by Greek defense sources, February saw a total of 160 violations of Greek air space committed by Turkish military aircraft, 55 percent up from the monthly average of 107 in 2004 — at the end of which Ankara was granted, with Greek backing, a date for the initiation of European Union entry talks. Athens FIR infringements rocketed from 210 a...

Since new CIA Director Porter Goss blocked the October Surprise agency left-wingers had prepared against Bush (discussed in “Porter At The Pass” last week), they desperately rigged another one, working with Mohammad ElBaradei at the UN. What nobody is focusing on in Al Qaqaagate is that the CIA is behind it. The anti-Bush lefties are now known as the “Rogue Weasels” at Langley, and they are frantic to do whatever they can to elect Kerry. They cooked up this entire phony “tons of missing explosives” scandal, sweet-talked the head of the UN’s nuclear inspection agency, ElBaradei, to carry their water...