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What to do when the critics get too close ?
2008-05-07 04:59:00 The Scientologists bankrupt them through endless litigation and then buy them out at the subsequent “fire sale.” See what they did to the Cult Awareness Network some time ago. This video will make you pretty angry … watch with this caution in mind: http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?vie wkey=bb01bfd32cfb93d4d4ea More About: Close , Critics
Is it possible to have a wrong kind of faith?
2008-05-06 13:13:00 Why are there so many “faiths?” Is it possible to a have wrong kind of faith? Is there any truth to there being only One Way? Have you ever asked yourself, “Do I Have The Right Kind Of Faith ?” Is it enough just to believe in something? And if that’s the case, isn’t one religious idea just ... More About: Religion , Wrong
Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels
2008-05-05 03:22:00 Plotters Freed in Yemen; U.S. Efforts Frustrated ADEN, Yemen — Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials. More About: War On Terror , Probe , Bombing
China Boosts Efforts to Quash Virus As Death Toll Among Children Rises
2008-05-04 22:10:00 Is the Olympics in danger? BEIJING — The death toll from a highly infectious virus that preys on children rose to 24 Sunday as it spread to a new province amid heightened efforts by China ’s Health Ministry to contain it. Official Xinhua News Agency said an 18-month old boy who died in Foshan city in Guangdong Friday ... More About: Virus , Children , Death , Toll
?Iron Man? Has Blockbuster Debut
2008-05-04 22:07:00 LOS ANGELES — “Iron Man ” was pure gold at the box office. The Marvel Comics adaptation, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the guy in the metal suit, hauled in $100.7 million during its opening weekend and $104.2 million since debuting Thursday night, the second-best premiere ever for a nonsequel, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film also ... More About: Entertainment , Blockbuster , Debut
Tina Turner Comeback Tour After 8 Years (Video)
2008-05-04 22:03:00 None of this “old and busted” for Tina The ?Queen? of singing Tina Turner is coming back to kick up her heels on the stage for a new tour after an 8 year break. The tour will launch on October 1st at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, MO. Tina revealed the news to her good friend ... More About: Video , Entertainment , Tour , Years
Boston Beats Hawks 99 - 65 in Game 7
2008-05-04 21:40:00 Can you spell BODY SLAM (lots of them)? BOSTON - The Boston Celtics defeated the Atlanta Hawks 99 - 65 in game seven in the first round of the playoffs. After posting the league’s best record during the regular season, the Celtics have been taken to the limit by an Atlanta team that barely made it into ... More About: Sports , Game , Beats
Tom Cruise denounces authority of Scientology
2008-05-04 15:27:00 Slamming Brooke Shields was wrong: Cruise In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, he said: “It came out wrong, it’s just not true. I was raised by four women who have children and babies. I’m not trying or want to tell anyone how to live their life or what they should believe or shouldn’t believe.” That’s a little ... More About: Tom Cruise , Scientology , Authority
Video played of N.C. trooper kicking dog
2008-05-04 05:33:00 The animal’s loyalty hardly dismisses owner’s abuse RALEIGH - A hearing into the firing of a state trooper accused of mistreating his police dog opened today with a video of the officer kicking the dog as it was suspended from the railing of a loading dock. The 15-second video, taken by another trooper using his cell phone, ... More About: Video , Trooper , Kicking
Australia?s Gun Laws: Little Effect
2008-05-04 05:27:00 The best defense against illegal weapons is MORE legal weapons On the afternoon of April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant snapped. A striking figure with his long blond hair and milky skin, he had just eaten lunch at a café within the historic site of Port Arthur, a former prison in Australia ’s island state of Tasmania. Described ... More About: Laws , Amendment , Effect
Just the smell of crayons will make all those memories come flooding back
2008-05-04 05:17:00 All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts For the last 100 years or so kids have been exploring and creating worlds of color with Crayons. For a lot of us, our life long love affairs with color began with these wax sticks and a blank sheet of paper. According to a Yale University study, ... More About: Coolness , Back , Memories , Smell , Make
Site offers information to help judge the Bible for yourself
2008-05-04 05:02:00 Prove the Bible to me More information has survived about Jesus Christ than most other ancient figures. Yet few historical persons have ever had their existence as questioned and as researched as Jesus Christ. One result of all that research is that information about Christ, from sources other than the Bible, is readily accessible by the common ... More About: Religion , Information , Judge , Site
Free gas and oil change at Mrs. Winners
2008-05-04 04:34:00 Mrs. Winner’s offering free gas for a year The Atlanta-based fried chicken restaurant chain on April 25 began offering the deal only for a limited time. Customers can come into any participating Mrs. Winner’s Chicken & Biscuits location in metro Atlanta and register for a weekly drawing to win free gas for a year. One weekly ... More About: Change , Free , Winners
What?s happening in Georgia in May?
2008-05-04 04:30:00 Just a few suggestions … Fiesta Atlanta ? Cinco de Mayo Celebration! Centennial Olympic Park Georgia Frontier Days - Stone Mountain Park Locust Grove Day 18th Annual Taste of Alpharetta Atlanta Jazz Festival
Does Spike Lee listen to the Neal Boortz program?
2008-05-04 04:11:00 Spike Lee Thinks Someone’s Paying Wright to Bash Obama By Noel Sheppard | Newsbusters What is it about Hollywoodans that makes so many of them believe that any time political leaders they revere get caught in a scandal, it’s because of some vast conspiracy? While you ponder, consider how just days after “View” co-host Joy Behar suggested that ... More About: Politics , Current Events , Politicians , Listen , Neal
U.S. gas: So cheap it hurts
2008-05-03 17:55:00 Some are not convinced … Hummer owners included Relatively low taxes have kept pump prices far below most other developed nations, which some say is precisely why the current runup is so painful. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Despite daily headlines bemoaning record gas prices, the U.S. is actually one of the cheaper places to fill up ... More About: Economy , Cheap
ATLANTA: #&%*! City?s commute rated worst
2008-05-03 17:20:00 When Forbes.com includes time in traffic and limited public transit, Atlanta gets stuck at the bottom. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Forbes.com has dipped its hand back into the bag of travel statistics and decided Atlanta’s commute is the worst in the nation. Last July Forbes.com combined commute statistics a different way, counting health measures like crash rates, and found ... More About: City , Commute
U.N.?s World Food Program Cried Poverty While Sitting on Cash Stockpile of
2008-05-03 17:09:00 Hey bro … can you spare a couple $million Just weeks before it announced the onset of a global food crisis and the urgent need for donors to provide at least $775 million in additional funding, the World Food Program was sitting on a cash and near-cash stockpile of more than $1.22 billion. The startling figure is ... More About: Poverty , Cash
It?s coming back!!
2008-05-02 14:27:00 Rumors that BMW is bringing back the Isetta appear to be true, and the latest word out of Munich is the modern take on the old classic will be an electric vehicle that’s coming to America. BMW brass are reportedly poised to sign off on the project in order to meet California’s zero emissions vehicle mandate, ... More About: Economy , Back
Man accused of trying to cash check for $360,000,000,000
2008-05-02 13:10:00 A man has been accused of attempting to pass a $360 billion check, which he claims was given to him by his girlfriend?s mother to start a record business, Fort Worth police said. Charles Ray Fuller, 21, of Crowley, was arrested on April 22 on an accusation of forgery, police said. Police responded to a report ... More About: Check , Cash
Hamas Adds ?Sinister Twist? to Holocaust Denial
2008-05-01 14:39:00 Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Although Holocaust denial has long been a common theme among Palestinians, Hamas has added a ’sinister twist,’ claiming that the Jews themselves devised the Holocaust to exterminate the disabled and handicapped among them so they wouldn’t be a burden to the future State of Israel. The documentary, which aired on Hamas Al-Aksa television ... More About: War On Terror , Holocaust Denial , Twist
Tenant who lived in incest house for 12 years heard knocking from sex dunge
2008-05-01 05:02:00 A tenant who lived above the cellar where Elisabeth Fritzl was imprisoned by her father for 24 years described today how he heard strange noises in the night - and saw Josef Fritzl ferrying wheelbarrows of food under cover of darkness. Alfred Dubanovsky, 42, who lived in the building in the Austrian town of Amstetten for ... More About: House , Years , Incest , Lived
Lifestyle check ? is YOURS draining your pocketbook?
2008-05-01 00:45:00 Making your pocketbook sick Unhealthy lifestyles also can affect your career and finances. Poor health often leads to the top two causes of disability ?- back problems and cardiovascular disease — both of which can compromise your work performance. At the very least, these disorders can keep you from getting that raise or promotion you’ve ... More About: Lifestyle , Health News , Check
Kerry Rips MSNBC On Wright: ?You People Need To Let Go Of This?
2008-05-01 00:37:00 Today, John Kerry officially became the 87,436th person to receive one of the three or four versions of the same Reverend Wright question MSNBC has been asking everyone it comes in contact with, including their plants and pets. Kerry, who’s maybe a little sensitive toward these sorts of issues, wasn’t having it, and his displeasure ... More About: Politics , People , Politicians , Presidential Primary
911 Operator Falls Asleep On The Job (VIDEO)
2008-05-01 00:33:00 A woman calling 911 to report a possible break-in was in for some surprising customer service. After explaining her predicament, she spent the next minute listening to the operator snore. Check out the video below. Yelling at them wouldn’t be a bad idea … ya never know. More About: Video , Operator , Falls
Former Scientologist tells it all
2008-05-01 00:31:00 Wow … these people are really hacked off!! I am a former member of the COS, in fact, I was a high ranking SO Member at the Int Base for 10 years. One thing that I would like to make known here is that when I made it known that I wanted to leave the Sea ... More About: Tells , Scientologist
Instant Scientology ? just take this quiz
2008-05-01 00:15:00 Become a “Scilon” (detractor term for Scientologist) … 10 questions, no waiting! The following quiz should be easy for anyone who has been keeping up with the war between the Church of Scientology and the Internet. An answer key is included. The answers may be verified by reading the sacred scripture known as OT III, which, ... More About: Quiz
Americans Sell Prized Possessions To Make Ends Meet (And How You Can, Too)
2008-04-30 20:42:00 EDITOR NOTE: Forget buying … just send us money NEW YORK ? The for-sale listings on the online hub Craigslist come with plaintive notices, like the one from the teenager in Georgia who said her mother lost her job and pleaded, “Please buy anything you can to help out.” Or the seller in Milwaukee who wrote in ... More About: Economy , Meet , Make , Sell , Americans
GM Posts $3.25 Billion Q1 Loss
2008-04-30 20:38:00 General Motors (GM) just can’t seem to escape its funk. The automaker is reeling from lender GMAC’s problems, a supplier strike, and its still money-losing North American business The auto company reported a first-quarter loss of $3.25 billion on Apr. 30, a huge turn in the wrong direction from the small profit it reported in the first ... More About: Economy , Loss , Posts , Billion
Katie Holmes in Scientology health rehab for lobotomy?
More articles from this author:2008-04-30 20:17:00 Could there be trouble in Xenudise? The Star is reporting that, at Tom Cruise’s insistence, Katie Holmes recently spent a few days in the desert at a compound for hardcore Scientologists! The mag alleges that Katie spent three days in Hemet, California at Gold Base, a “remote, supersecret Scientology compound”, where she underwent rigorous auditing sessions ... More About: Health , Rehab 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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