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Brazil priest flying party balloons still lost at sea
2008-04-23 05:25:00 Hopes fade for ‘party balloon’ priest HOPES are fading for a Brazil ian priest who floated aloft tied to 1000 giant party balloons after several of the helium-filled balloons were found floating at sea. Father Adelir de Carli, 41, soared into the sky from the southeastern town of Paranagua on Sunday, sitting in a harnass attached to the ... More About: Lost , Party , Flying , Balloons
Clinton beats Obama in Pennsylvania ? barely
2008-04-23 03:04:00 Squeaker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton beat rival Barack Obama in a do-or-die showdown in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, according to a Fox network projection, prolonging the Democratic presidential race and keeping alive her White House hopes. Clinton’s margin of victory over Obama was still unclear. She was aiming for a substantial win that would help her narrow ... More About: Politics , Beats
Saving the earth is Pelosi?s religious calling
2008-04-23 02:49:00 Pelosi Statement Celebrating Earth Day WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in observance of the 38th annual Earth Day, which will be observed tomorrow, Tuesday, April 22: “Almost four decades ago, a group of visionary Americans energized the environmental movement, and indeed our nation, by dedicating a day to this ... More About: Calling , Pelosi , Saving , Religious
As Barbie Sales Fall, Mattel Looks To Simplify Its Iconic Line
2008-04-22 05:06:00 Wall Street Journal (click image to enlarge) Barbie finally wears out her welcome For Mattel Inc. and its flagship icon Barbie, chasing the ever-changing tastes of American girls is turning out to be more difficult than expected. Amid a rare quarterly loss reported Monday, the El Segundo, Calif., company reported flat world-wide sales for the Barbie brand. That ... More About: Economy , Sales , Line
Gun owners are the happiest people in the US
2008-04-22 01:19:00 The Wall Street Journal reports that gun-clingers are not, in fact, bitter. (click image to enlarge) According to the 2006 General Social Survey, which has tracked gun ownership since 1973, 34% of American homes have guns in them. This statistic is sure to surprise many people in cities like San Francisco ? as it did me when ... More About: People , Amendment , Owners
Jason Beghe Interview ? just in case you missed it
2008-04-21 16:42:00 Jason talks about leaving Scientology … this is a major black eye for the cult of creepiness. Xenu TV More About: Interview , Case , Jason
Laser lunatics face $5000 fines
2008-04-21 15:21:00 Sydney Morning Herald Police will have powers to frisk people they suspect of carrying lasers and those without reason to have them - such as educators, architects or astronomers - will be fined up to $5000. NSW Premier Morris Iemma said today the Government would ban the most powerful laser pointers and make it a summary ... More About: Laser , Face , Lunatics
If Scientology Worked?
2008-04-21 05:53:00 Unknown writer nails it on Tampa Bay comment board (click image to enlarge) If Scientology worked as well as the Church of Scientology claims, what would the church be like? If Scientology worked, the citizens of Clearwater, Florida, would, by now, be extremely happy to have “Flag, the Mecca of Scientology” in their fair city. After all, the ... More About: Religion
Redefining ?Swiftboating? and Rewriting History
2008-04-20 14:44:00 AmericanThinker.com - By Henry P. Wickham, Jr. Despite their short-term relevance to the 2008 presidential campaign, this current misuse and redefinition of swiftboating are far more than just semantic developments. Words and their meanings, like ideas, have consequences. Here, there is a very real and conscious strategy involved with the redefinition of this word. It entails ... More About: Politics , History , Politicians , Presidential Primary , Rewriting
Move over Scientology stories about Zenu ? enter crystal skulls from space
2008-04-20 05:29:00 Indiana Jones and the Heap of Old Junk The Independent UK (click image to enlarge) The 12 surviving Aztec crystal skulls are cherished by museums, revered by New-Age writers, and have a starring role in Harrison Ford’s new movie. There’s just one problem: they are fakes, say French experts. Harrison Ford’s comeback as Steven Spielberg’s swashbuckling, fedora-wearing archaeologist ... More About: Entertainment , Space , Stories , Scientology , Crystal
South Carolina: Public barred from list of concealed weapons permits
2008-04-20 04:52:00 South Carolina - TheState.com Georgia Newsroom Editor doesn’t mind anyone knowing … as evidenced by his auto tag A new law bars the public from finding out who can carry concealed weapons in South Carolina. The measure signed into law on Wednesday exempts the identities of the state’s more than 61,300 permit holders from what’s available through the ... More About: Public , Amendment , List , South , South Carolina
Teacher Refuses to Remove Bible from Desk
2008-04-20 04:33:00 And we’ll keep a copy on our site too! CBNNews.com (click image to enlarge) An Ohio middle school science teacher is fighting back after his school told him to remove his Bible from his classroom desk. The Mount Vernon school district asked John Freshwater last week to remove all religious items from plain view. Freshwater took down the ... More About: Religion , Teacher , Desk
Chinese send guns and ammo to Mugabe
2008-04-19 18:25:00 Wherever peoples are oppressed these days, two constants appear. One is the inevitable chorus of apologists with ready excuses for the oppressors, blaming colonialism from a century ago or Crusades from a millenium past. The other is the Chinese government. Why do the Chinese seem so insistent on subsidizing oppression? It?s not just oil. That could ... More About: Guns , Send , Mugabe
Movie Review: Expelled
2008-04-19 14:36:00 Interesting observations by Ed Morrissey on Hot Air …the film does an excellent job of demonstrating atheism as a belief system. Atheism as represented by Richard Dawkings and others in this film gets exposed as exactly the kind of belief system they claim to despise. They can?t prove God exists ? and they can?t prove God ... More About: Religion , Movie , Entertainment , Movie Review , Review
Financial CEOs See Recession on the Way
2008-04-19 14:17:00 Wall Street Journal Chief executive officers in the financial-services industry think the economy is in or will soon be in a recession, but they believe the Federal Reserve is handling the credit turmoil fairly well. The Financial Services Forum, a group of 20 CEOs of financial-services companies doing business in the U.S., Friday released a survey that ... More About: Economy , Recession
Scientology?s First Celebrity Defector Reveals Church Secrets
2008-04-19 04:51:00 ‘I was Miscavige’s favorite boy,’ says veteran TV actor Jason Beghe Or … How I was ripped off of over 1 million dollars that I could have donated to the Georgia Newsroom! Veteran television actor Jason Beghe tells the Village Voice that the Church of Scientology will be feeling blindsided by the YouTube video of him that ... More About: Religion , Celebrity , Secrets
What We Learned From the Surge
2008-04-19 01:51:00 Somebody has to make the BIG decision … is the President capable? Medal of Honor (click image to enlarge) Does the administration have a viable strategy in Iraq? Reasonable people debate the point. Yes, says Peter Feaver, a Duke University political scientist and former Bush administration official who helped formulate the surge. ?At last,? he writes ... More About: War On Terror , Current Events , War in Iraq , Surge , Learned
Scientologists have lowest rating on Gallup poll ? -45 (yikes)
2008-04-18 06:47:00 At the bottom of the list … below Muslims and Atheists (click image to enlarge) But … Americans Have Net-Positive View of U.S. Catholics PRINCETON, NJ — As Pope Benedict XVI prepares to make his first U.S. visit as pope, a recent Gallup Panel survey finds Americans with a mostly positive view of U.S. Roman Catholics as a ... More About: Religion , Scientology , Poll , Gallup Poll
Testimony: Some in polygamist sect may have had kids at 13
2008-04-18 04:21:00 SAN ANGELO, Texas - A child welfare worker says numerous women at a polygamous church ranch in Texas may have had children when they were as young as age 13. The testimony came Thursday night during a court hearing to determine the custody of the 416 children swept up in a raid on the ranch two ... More About: Religion , Kids , Testimony
The End Of The Internet: Switching to IPv6
2008-04-18 03:51:00 Who knew? (click image to enlarge) It turns out there is an end to the Internet after all: the international companies that make web addresses available say some countries will run out of available ones as early as 2010. Currently, the world uses version 4 of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. A forward-thinking group meeting in Beijing, China, this ... More About: The Internet , Switching
Saddam and al-Qaeda
2008-04-17 13:31:00 Claims that there were no links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda are wrong. Documents just released by the Pentagon prove it. The American Thinker - Debra Baker In March 2008, the Pentagon released a document that details some of the classified documents from Saddam’s regime. This document called the Iraqi Perspectives Project Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging ... More About: War On Terror , Al Qaeda , Al-Qaeda
Worst. Debate. Ever.
2008-04-17 05:15:00 Huffington Post - Jason Linkins Going into tonight’s debate in Philadelphia, the two millionth one we’ve had so far this primary season, I had one significant worry: that the bulk of the time would be taken up with process questions and media obsessions, and that issues of import would end up getting sidelined. As it turns ... More About: Politics , Debate , Presidential Primary
Jason Beghe, TV And Movie Actor, Films Scientology Rant: ?Destructive And A
2008-04-16 05:17:00 A former Scientologist has left the controversial church of Tom Cruise and is speaking out on YouTube. Jason Beghe is the real-life best fried of David Duchovny, he played Demi Moore’s love interest in “G.I. Jane” and has appeared on shows like “Criminal Minds,” “Numb3rs” and “CSI.” You can see from the video that Beghe does ... More About: Religion , Movie , Films , Scientology , Rant
Jimmy Carter Embraces Hamas Official
2008-04-16 05:13:00 Or … how I ticked off almost everyone on the planet, except the bad guys RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter embraced a leading Hamas figure Tuesday, according to participants in a meeting that infuriated Israeli officials already upset by Carter’s freelance Mideast peace mission. Carter also laid a wreath at the grave ... More About: Current Events , Jimmy Carter , Official
More Than Four Pounds of Warts Removed From Man With Bark-Like Growths
2008-04-15 23:52:00 Doctors have removed more than four pounds of warts from an Indonesian man dubbed “Tree Man” because of the bark-like growths on his hands and feet. Fox News (click image to enlarge) Dede Koswara can now hold a pen and see the outline of his toes for the first time in more than a decade after surgeons ...
Thomas Sowell on Obama: A Living Lie
2008-04-15 23:42:00 Senator Obama is all talk — glib talk, exciting talk, confident talk, but still just talk. An e-mail from a reader said that, while Hillary Clinton tells lies, Barack Obama is himself a lie. That is becoming painfully apparent with each new revelation of how drastically his carefully crafted image this election year contrasts with what ... More About: Living , Thomas , Thomas Sowell , Presidential Primary
Iranian vice chief ?caught in brothel?
2008-04-15 23:28:00 An Iranian police chief in charge of fighting vice in Tehran was jailed today for reportedly consorting in an underground brothel. Local media reported that General Reza Zarei was jailed after being caught with six naked women at a prostitution den in the Iranian capital. Ali Reza Jamshidi, a spokesman for Iran?s judiciary, confirmed today that ... More About: Chief , Caught , Vice
How Liberals Lost a Liberal
2008-04-15 13:27:00 Insight from one of our favorite commentators … Dennis Prager The Democratic Party’s preoccupation with the question of when America will leave Iraq rather than with how America will win in Iraq reminds me of how and why this nearly lifelong liberal and Democrat became identified as a conservative and Republican activist. I have identified as liberal ... More About: Politics , Liberals , Lost , Liberal
About 200 Protest Scientology in Clearwater
2008-04-15 13:05:00 Typical cult response to criticism CLEARWATER - The Internet-based group Anonymous held its third protest in about three months Saturday outside the headquarters of the Church of Scientology . Elizabeth Daly-Watts, Clearwater public safety spokeswoman, said there were no problems and no arrests were made. But … in an obvious case of “seeing only what you WANT to see,” Church ... More About: Religion , Protest
?World peace? hitcher is murdered
More articles from this author:2008-04-15 02:44:00 An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey. The naked body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, known as Pippa Bacca, was found in bushes near the northern city of Gebze on Friday. She had said she wanted to ... More About: War On Terror , Peace , World , World Peace 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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