Years ago, wise-cracking, chain-smoking, beer-drinking First Brother Billy Carter reeled me in good as he groused that he, big brother Jimmy the President of The United States of America and other Southern Baptists were forbidden to engage in sexual relations with their wives while standing. I was astonished that any religion would be so unabashedly [...]

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Stop Global Warming! Don’t light that Chanukah candle! Yes, another hit on religion this week, with a “Green Hanukkia’ campaign” being promoted via email in Israel. United Torah Judaism MK Avraham Ravitz called the environmentalists “crazy people who are playing with the minds of innocent Jewish people.” But Wegner, whose media company is promoting the [...]

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Today’s Manila Bulletin (print edition) has not one but two photographs of our lovely president, Gloria Arroyo, on the front page. The Philippine president is visiting Spain…getting jobs for Pinoys there and lots of money for investment here, including setting up a biofuel plant to process jatropha oil into diesel. Like her former classmate, Bill [...]

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Victor is talking to Victoria telling her that there is some good news. He tells her that they are bringing her home today and that they are setting up her old room just like it use to be for her. He says the best news of all is that her mother is moving back in [...]

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Lily tells Dusty she has to go to the farm to pick the girls up. She promised them to have the best girls’ night out ever. He asks her is she is nervous and she said sort of. She feels like she has to do something so amazing to outdo Holden or they will hate [...]

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Sami and Lucas fight over her letting EJ take little Johnny. He accuses her of giving up on their love and their marriage. He thinks she is falling in love with EJ now. He tells her she is a DiMera now and as long as she is EJ’s wife she is no longer welcome in [...]

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News Item: New candy resembles street drug Back in the day, when LSD was the drug of choice, dealers took to imprinting the tabs that would disolve on your tongue with things like bright yellow smiley faces that would appeal to a more youthful clientel.  Hershey Chocolate [which is my favorite chocolate, by the way, [...]

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REXANO Editorial Press,  www.REXANO.org Las Vegas, NV (12/4/2007) — In response to a December 3rd, 2007 tiger attack on a worker at her Shambala preserve, Tippi Hedren, known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie ‘The Birds’, was quoted in LA Times: ““It’s a terrible, terrible thing that has happened,” Hedren said, adding that many of [...]

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Senegalese government official sends threatening note to journalist New York, December 4, 2007—A Senegalese government official threatened a reporter with unspecified harm on Monday in response to a story implicating him in an alleged corruption scandal, according to news reports and local journalists. He was the third top official this year to threaten physical harm [...]

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Gambia’s President Arrives in Taiwan!!By Lamin Kinteh Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh arrived in Taipei, on a five day official visit. His visit followed the recent United Nations decision to reject Taiwan’s request to be admitted into the Global Body. The Gambia was very instrumental in championing Taiwan’s admission into the UN. The UN General Assembly [...]

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With 1-2 million foreclosures on the horizon, we are probably going to see a lot of shady characters advertise on lamp posts, classified ads, pay-per-click advertising and spam e-mails with questionable promises to rescue people in a difficult situation. Apparently, the mortgage crisis is now so bad some are saying it’s likely to cause a [...]

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“Why Would I Kill Ghanaians? “ Jammeh Rhetorically AskedGambia’s President Says The 44 Ghanaians Were Murdered And Dumped into The Gambia By Unknown People “… What hurts me most is that I have a very excellent relationship with Kufor and some how these bodies appeared from nowhere and we are accused. “says Jammeh. By Foday [...]

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Statements from Jim Briscoe, Lori Drew’s Lawyer Briscoe Appeared on Today Show Tuesday  Still Says She is Not Responsible for Megan Meier Suicide  Video Report Link  Highlights from Lori Drew’s lawyer, Jim Briscoe’s Interview earlier on Today: * “She knew these girls were doing it and she didn’t stop it,” attorney Jim Briscoe told TODAY’s [...]

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A man who was kind enough to donate his sperm to a lesbian couple has now–18 years later–been stabbed in the back and hit up for child support. According to the New York Post:”A sperm donor who sent gifts signed ‘Dad’ to his biological son has been slapped with a child-support order, 18 years after helping [...]

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[I wonder who has shaped the U.S. public's view of Iraq?  Ed Kent] Pew Research Center: (11/28/07) The polling outfit has a new survey of journalists working in Iraq, who basically say they are unable to tell the whole story—but from what they can see, things are awful: Two Views of Iraq A Survey of [...]

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I think it is pretty clear from the election results that there is a vast difference between the political worlds of Putin and Chavez. By all reports one’s life is put at risk in Russia today if one opposes the regime which incidentally features multiple billionaires supported by and supporting Putin. Chavez in contrast is [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog It seems that Sandy Robertson, the principal at the Columbus Manor School in Oak Lawn, Illinois finds it “difficult when you change the schools culture”. This in response to the heated controversy – police had to be called the Columbus Manor School to intervene in a shouting match among parents [...]

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The big news splashed everywhere is the new national intelligence estimate that states Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003; A new U.S. intelligence report concludes that Iran’s nuclear weapons development program has been halted since the fall of 2003 because of international pressure — a stark contrast to the conclusions U.S. spy agencies [...]

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[One of the horrors perpetrated by fundamentalists -- whether Christians, Muslims, or Jews -- is that they mess up the minds of kids. To do so with their own is, I guess, their right. But when they invade the space of our public schools with textbooks cheapened with superstition treated as fact, they are messing [...]

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Two days ago I posted a report on a joint U.S./Israeli plan in progress to strike Iran. Now we hear that all 16 of our U.S. intelligence agencies report that Iran stopped work towards producing a nuclear weapons capacity in 2003. All that stuff from the Bushies about Iran lying about its nuclear developments should [...]

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In the puppet-filled city of Yankerville, thousands of angry citizens are awaiting the invention of a simple modern device that would save them much angst and frustration. Fortunately, the rest of us in the 21st century already have it: it’s called Caller ID.  As the quicker-witted denizens of Yankerville take to the phones, no one is safe from the comedic damage [...]

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In a thinly-veiled effort to exploit low-wage and low-cost countries as a production base in order to export their finished products back to more advanced economies at a much higher price, the people at Airbus are considering plans to build a final assembly plant in a place called Mobile, Alabama. The euro’s seemingly unstoppable climb [...]

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[Carolyn Birden's report (below) more or less gives the modus operandi of the LDC (Local Development Corporation) that was supposed to be representing the community interests under attack by Columbia. Add the fact that the 'pro bono' legal counsel assigned to represent the committee is a major development lawyer who usually receives hundreds of thousands [...]

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Apparently, Time Magazine has no idea what the definition of the word “morality” is. It is also certain that they don’t understand the concepts inherent in it as is evident in a recent feature titled “The Morality Quiz,” where Time shows that they imagine that all there is to morality is life or death decisions [...]

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The Associated Press tried to flog last week’s hostage drama at NY Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Rochester, NH, presidential campaign headquarters into a full-blown crisis that showcased Hillary’s ability to stay cool and levelheaded: When the hostages had been released and their alleged captor arrested, a regal-looking Hillary Rodham Clinton strolled out of her Washington home, [...]

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 Prosecutor Lists Reasons for Declining to File Charges Will it Make Any Difference in the Public Mind?  Is This the “Other Side of the Story”? Jack Banas, the St. Charles County prosecutor who announced that no charges would be filed over the Megan Meier Internet hoax, answered some questions yesterday about why no charges would [...]

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In a bit of irony, the “toolkit” that the MPAA is urging colleges to use to ferret out pennyless college kids who break the copyright law by sharing movies and music is itself breaking a copyright law. BoingBoing reports: The Toolkit is based on the GPL-licensed Xubuntu operating system (a flavor of Linux). The GPL [...]

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Part II in the Online War of Words Bloggers Claims She’s Hoaxing Mother  Is This Really Lori Drew?  The conversation still rages between the author claiming to be Lori Drew, Internet hoaxer, and readers of the blog, “Megan Had it Coming”. After posting twice as “Kristen”–the first on the weekend when most of the country [...]

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The Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts is alleged to have an unresolved history of rampant sexual harassment, but that didn’t stop Premier Gordon Campbell from announcing that $50 million will be invested in the school. Campbell made the announcement to the public at the Segal School of Business in downtown Vancouver on Nov. 13th. There [...]

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Is “Kristen” Lori Drew? Or Is It Another Hoax? Words of the Original Hoaxer or Internet Troll?  Part I  Are we seeing a conversation between Lori Drew, Internet hoaxer, and hundreds of Internet surfers? Or is this another hoax? In either case, the reading is riveting. On one side is the author of the ‘Megan [...]

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