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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Today's Front Page News From Canada




I just happened across this online news source for Canada and I thought their collection of front page stories was interesting and in some cases, even a bit strange. Here are links to some of those stories:

Tiger mauls zookeeper to death
An animal keeper was mauled to death Wednesday by a rare white tiger at a wildlife park in New Zealand while visitors watched in horror, police said.
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Dog that saved owner from fire is euthanized
A terminally ill bulldog whose barking awakened her owner in time for both to escape from a burning house in Michigan has been euthanized.
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Terminally ill dog saves owner from blaze

Woman's body in freezer 20 years
London police have discovered a woman's corpse in a home freezer 20 years after her death, Britain's Press Association reported Wednesday.
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Drunk driver left pal dying on roadside
A Drayton Valley drunk driver has admitted taking a pal out for drinks on his birthday and then leaving him dying on the side of the road after rolling his pickup truck.
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Teen faces 22 charges
Students at Burnaby Mountain Secondary were in shock yesterday after a brazen shooting metres away from school grounds Monday.
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Footlong Fugitive loyal to Subway
Police are looking for the Footlong Fugitive who's been repeatedly knocking off the same Subway restaurant in the south end.
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Hopefuls strut their stuff to be Miss Hooters
This city is going to sizzle tonight. And we're not talking about the weather. Twenty young women from across Canada are in Winnipeg to compete in the 10th annual Miss Hooters of Canada pageant.

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Slain girl battled disease
Given a new lease on life, Angela Holm was settling into a normal routine after beating a life-threatening immune disorder -- one that claimed her older brother -- she battled since infancy.
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Ex-schools trustee gets probation in ketchup theft
A former school board trustee from southern California has been sentenced to two years of informal probation for stealing a bottle of ketchup from a college dining area.
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Teens pranking school caught red-handed
Police in San Diego say a dozen high school students were caught in the act of moving hundreds of desks and chairs out of classrooms as part of a senior prank.
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Cigarette bandit wore beer carton as disguise
Police in Nebraska are looking a man who stole cigarettes while disguising himself as a beer carton.
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Toy helicopter used to smuggle phones into jail

Toddler is a cue-ball wizard at pool table

'Worst' inmate wants bail
A high-risk convict called the "most difficult" inmate in the Edmonton Remand Centre wants out on bail on charges of starting a fire in his cell and assaulting two guards.
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Bus driver called 'creepy'
Lawyer says man who fondled disabled woman not criminal


Bus beheader's fate unknown

Boy, 13, is not baby's dad: Court documents

Saturday, May 23, 2009

American Taliban?


ANN COULTER: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."


ANN COULTER: "Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed'"


BOB DORNAN: "Don't use the word 'gay' unless it's an acronym for 'Got Aids Yet'"


DAVID BARTON: "There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America."


FOB JAMES: "A good butt-whipping and then a prayer is a wonderful remedy."


FRED PHELPS: "American Veterans are to blame for the fag takeover of this nation. They have the power in their political lobby to influence the zeitgeist, get the fags out of the military, and back in the closet where they belong!"


FRED PHELPS: "Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death."


GARY BAUER: "There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe."


GARY NORTH: "The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant–baptism and holy communion–must be denied citizenship."


GARY POTTER: "When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil."


GEORGE BUSH, SR.: "I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."


GEORGE BUSH, JR.: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."


HENRY MORRIS: "When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data."


J.B. STONER: "We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to rescue and preserve the white race that he had created.... I praise God all the time for AIDS."


JAMES DOBSON: "State Universities are breeding grounds, quite literally, for sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV), homosexual behavior, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, alcoholism, and drug abuse."


JAMES DOBSON: "Today's children... They're damned. They're gone."


JAMES KENNEDY: "The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ."


JAMES WATT*: "We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."

*Secretary of the Interior in the Reagan Admin. Responsible for National Policy regarding the Environment


JAY GRIMSTEAD: "We are to make Bible-obeying disciples of anybody that gets in our way."


JERRY FALWELL: "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters."


JESSE HELMS: "The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian."


JIMMY SWAGGART: "Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it...Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory."


JOHN WHITEHEAD: "The [Supreme] Court, by seeking to equate Christianity with other religions, merely assaults the one faith. The Court in essence is assailing the true God by democratizing the Christian religion."


JOSEPH MCCARTHY: "Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between Communistic Atheism and Christianity."


JOSEPH MORECRAFT: "Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than God. And therefore the state does not have the responsibility to defend anybody's pseudo-right to worship an idol."


JOSEPH SCHIEDLER: "I would like to outlaw contraception...contraception is disgusting – people using each other for pleasure."


KAY O'CONNOR (Kansas State Lawmaker): "I'm an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women today, we wouldn't have to vote."


LT. GENERAL WILLIAM P. BOYKIN: “George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.”


PAT BUCHANAN: "There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours."


PAT BUCHANAN: "Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism."


PAT ROBERTSON: "Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different...More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history."


PAT ROBERTSON: "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."


PAT ROBERTSON: "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."


PAUL CAMERON: "Unless we get medically lucky, in three or four years, one of the options discussed will be the extermination of homosexuals."


RANDALL TERRY: "I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."


RANDALL TERRY: "When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed."*

*It is interesting to note that Randell Terry's son is gay



ROBERT SIMONDS: "Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable."*


*The United States Constitution expressly forbids any "religion test" to hold public office.



ROBERT T. LEE: "Raising your children under Americanism or any other principles other than true Christianity is child abuse."



ROBERT T. LEE: "Democracy originated in the mind of a rational being who has the deepest hatred for God."



RUSH LIMBAUGH: "There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them"



STAR PARKER: "Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now."



Thursday, May 21, 2009

Destination: Scandal from the Washington Post

From sexual peccadilloes to Cold War conspiracies, we bring you Washington's more entertaining, more human, more seamy side. We've also compiled the Post stories that covered -- and in many cases exposed -- the scandals. Our curious observation: almost every sex scandal results in a tell-all memoir. We'll give you the book titles for your next trip to the library.


The two tours that follow will take you to the list of homes, office buildings and offices that make up Washington's Worst Addresses. Locations marked with the are within easy walking distance in downtown Washington, so you can take a short detour from your trip to the White House or the Smithsonian to check out some or all of these infamous sites. Or join local comedy group Gross National Product for the official Scandal Tours bus trip.


Let the gawking begin!