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Did Isaac Hayes really quit South Park? Last night's show roasted Hayes for his irate departure following the now-infamous Scientology episode (banned from the air in Tom Cruise's litigious wake, full episode here). In the latest episode, masters of subtlety Trey Parker and Matt Stone depict Chef as having fallen prey to an insidious cult, the "Super Adventure Club", subsequently killing him off in a manner that would make Kenny jealous. But today Foxnews reports that Isaac Hayes has been in the hospital since Jan. 17th, following a stroke, and never issued a statement. Apparently, the Scientology Center issued it "for" him. [via] [previously discussed here here and here]
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Yesterday a multinational military force rescued three men from the Chicago-based Christian Peacemaker Teams. The three men rescued were James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, both from Canada; and Norman Kember, 74, of Britain. The American man, Tom Fox's body was found this month. He had apparently been tortured by his captors before being shot multiple times in the head and dumped on a trash heap next to a railway line in western Baghdad.
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A toy rabbit, pastel-colored eggs and a sign with the words "Happy Easter" were removed from the lobby of the City Council offices, because of concerns they might offend non-christians. A council secretary had put up the decorations. They were not bought with city money. St. Paul's human rights director, Tyrone Terrill, asked that the decorations be removed, saying they could be offensive to non-christians. But City Council member Dave Thune says removing the decorations went too far, and he wonders why they can't celebrate spring with "bunnies and fake grass."
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(Editor's Note: The controversial claim that Osama bin Laden was cooperating with Saddam Hussein is an ongoing matter of intense debate. While the assertions contained in this document clearly support the claim, the sourcing is questionable — i.e. an unnamed Afghan "informant" reporting on a conversation with another Afghan "consul." The date of the document — four days after 9/11 — is worth noting but without further corroboration, this document is of limited evidentiary value.)
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In Washington, meanwhile, the Bush administration continued to express its dismay and to increase the pressure on Kabul. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke this morning with President Hamid Karzai and discussed the affair "in the strongest possible terms," said the State Department spokesman, Sean Mccormack.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper phoned Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Wednesday to express his concerns about an Afghan man facing a death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity....
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Toronto Star: Remaining three CPT members freed after months held hostage in Iraq I, and I think many others, honestly thought that the other three Christian Peacemaker Team members who had been held for approximately 4 months in Iraq had suffered the same fate as their American colleague, Tom Fox. I very much regret that not all of them were able to brought to safety, but I am thankful that the lives of three were spared: Jim Loney, Harmeet Sooden, and Norman Kember. - - - - - On Tuesday evening, as I was pumping gas, I saw my first ever Luna moth in flight (I've never seen one alive before). It was gorgeous! It's a quite-large moth and so it almost looked like a bird flitting around, flying very gracefully. Cool!!!
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This movie was so good I must apply Erica ’ s description, it ’ s Fanfuckingtastic! Natalie Portman ’ s Performance was outstanding! Tho we do not see Hugo Weaving ’ s face at all he also was truly amazing.
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When traveling, just like a rock star, Vice President Dick Cheney has his own list of needs that his hotel must attend to, according to The Smoking Gun, which obtained a copy of his "downtime requirements."
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“ I was taught that the congress makes the laws and the president is supposed to sign them and enforce them. He's not supposed to make them up. --- How many times are we going to let George Bush and Dick Cheney say you guys don't support the troops, you 're not patriotic and let them push us around? "— Senator Russ Feingold, on the Daily Show, March 22, 2006 ***** The NY Observer's Chris Lehmann has an excellent article posted about Feingold and the Democratic leadership's cower-duck-and run strategery on the Censure Resolution. A Daily Kos reader poll shows 48% supporting Feingold, versus 2% for Hillary Clinton, 1% for Kerry and Biden.
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AP - The Easter Bunny has been sent packing at St. Paul City Hall. For more info on circle diego hotel motel san, check out circle diego hotel motel san now!
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Anna and I have been in the Northwest part of the country since last Saturday, so sorry for the lack of updates. We've had an incredible trip and have seen Seattle (Space Needle/Pikes Place Market/Downtown), camped at the San Juan Islands, snowshoed and camped at Mt. Rainier, visited the Oregon coast, bowled in Astoria, visited Portland Oregon yesterday and saw a Death Cab for Cutie and Franz Ferdinand show last night. It has been a tremendous trip filled with lots of coffee and rain!
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Wow! I can't believe Brad Pitt would give up Jennifer Aniston. I mean, she's really got to be a bitch for him to get away from her. Hey, if he's willing to let that go, then I'm willing to take the risk of bumping into her and maybe even be tempted to strike up a conversation. Okay, so it's ballsy. But what the heck. It's just like ending up at a site you have absolutely no interest in, like some off the wall topic like pennsylvania manganese lawsuit lawyer, and you then start searching for ways to research the topic on the site without even giving it a second thought.
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Donna Fenton no longer consults the scrap of paper in her pocketbook when she needs the phone number for the Red Cross, or New York City's welfare office, or the Federal Emergency Management Agency.''I know them all by heart,''said Ms. Fenton, 37, who left Biloxi, Miss., after Hurricane Katrina destroyed her home there.''I call them every day. That's my job.''
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A new climate study predicts four to six meters of sealevel rise within one hundred years assuming current global warming trends. NASA reports a ban on ISS for spacewalks from Russians due to lost chemical canisters, and from US astronauts because of faulty handrails. Want the fastest Windows XP Notebook? Choose the Apple Macbook Pro (except that AMD wasn't tested yet.
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Kevin's elimination also defied Dialidol's predictions, as they showed him fourth from last, suggesting Elliott Yamin would go home. Elliott Yamin was not in the bottom three, but of the other three people its predictions placed in the bottom four, all three were in the real bottom three: Bucky Covington, Lisa Tucker, and Kevin Covais. The site's predictions, though, were reversed, as it suggested that after Elliot, Lisa Tucker was the next-most vulnerable, followed by Bucky and then Kevin. In reality, it was the exact opposite.
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http: // msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5437316in other news, ian bought MLB 06: the show for our playstation 2 last night. we spent a couple of hours playing a game. ian was baltimore and i was the red sox. tim wakefield's knuckleball makes all the hitters look "silly", and david ortiz just has to tap the ball to make it soar out of fenway. also, johnny damon is not on the team, which is great news for me.
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The end of the episode was the money scene. Jack, Locke, and Henry Gale sitting at the table in the Hatch over a bowl of DHARMA-O's (The box reads: di9fftr731). Henry puts his creepy pants on big time. He questions the two men about the computer. He questions them about the cereal and how long its been inside the Hatch. He attempts to divide them once again spilling that he gave a map to Ana Lucia knowing that each man will think the other one was holding out. He very artfully plays these two men against each other in this scene building on what he attempted to do to Locke at the end of "Maternity Leave" and to Jack in a far more subtle way before Jack leads him to the breakfast nook.
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The author, Dan Brown claims within the preface to The Da Vinci Code that "all descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate". Of course, the truth described by Brown is under dispute by those who have most to lose in having it come to light.
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I'm often told by readers of their encounters with Americans who support the outrages of US foreign policy no matter what facts are presented to them, no matter what arguments are made, no matter how much the government's statements are shown to be false. If these Americans have no other defense of the policies they will declare how glad they are that the United States rules and polices the world; better America than someone else. They include amongst their number those who still believe that Iraq had a direct involvement in the events of September 11, that Saddam Hussein had close ties to al Qaeda, and/or that weapons of mass destruction were indeed found in Iraq after the 2003 invasion.
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Prison Break star Wentworth Miller has come up with a novel way to boost ratings on the show - by merging its storyline with Hit castaway drama Lost. The hunky actor's "little fantasy" would offer a surprise twist blending the jail saga with the popular island survival series, which stars Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly. He jokes, "In the last episode of the season, we slip into the prison's sewer systems, up through these grates, and pop out a hatch - and we 're face-to-face with Matthew Fox, and we spend season two on a tropical beach." lol! I don't know where it's from but it made me laugh. i loathe the word hunky by the way. I will say that the last five minutes of Lost last night made up for the previous two episodes!
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Sometimes I wonder what William Shakespear or Oscar Wilde would make of the Internet. Would they still be prodigious writers or would they be great bloggers. I can just visualize William Shakespear Blog, Sarcasm and irony ixed with witty comments. Having a go at the Government one minute then getting all fictitious the next. Commenting on discount price on laptop computer in one paragraph and then trials of life the next. Now that would be fun to peruse
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03-22-06 What you thought you heard... was not what he meant to say. The comedy that is KTRS is being rewritten every day. This morning, Round 2 FNG Dave Lenihan misspoke and used the word "coon" instead of "coup" when speaking of Condi Rice taking over the NFL. He was fired within minutes and corporate fall guy Tim Dorsey apologized profusely on the air. (Audio via Stltoday.com) Channels 2, 4 and 5 were predictably all over it as soon as it happened, as was the P-D. Tom Calhoun offers the best, most reasoned look at the fiasco I've seen yet on his blog. And the ring girl walks by holding up a sign: Round 3 is about to begin.
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Paula Abdul is clearly on something. Her behavior this week bordered on the mentally insane. Simon Cowell has been pretty patient with her so far this year, but on Tuesday it seemed as though he had enough. Even Ryan Seacrest called her out.
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After completing the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson must have breathed a small sigh of relief, before bracing himself for the potential that his project -- one of the biggest and most ambitious in cinema history -- could fail with critics and audiences. After the trilogy succeeded, and made oodles of money, Peter Jackson must have breathed a longer sigh of relief. The ordeal was over! But, what now? What could the great and successful Peter Jackson tackle now; what did he want to tackle now? King Kong? King Kong! But, why? Aha!
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Criticism also came from U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D., Ill.). In a letter last Tuesday to IRS Commissioner Mark Everson, Obama warned that once in the hands of third parties, tax information could be resold and handled under even looser rules than the IRS sets, increasing consumers'vulnerability to identity theft and other risks.
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READ MORE: Media, Personalities, anonymous sources, blind items, donald rumsfeld, maureen dowd, modo, page six, senior administration official guessing game
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John Green, currently executive producer of the weekend edition of GOOD MORNING AMERICA, unloaded on the president in an ABC company email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.
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Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.
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The paper notes that the pro-israel lobby has also been bolstered by the support of prominent, and some would say extremist, Christian evangelicals like Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson, as well as congressmen Dick Armey and Tom Delay, former majority leaders in the House of Representatives, all of whom believe Israel's rebirth is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy and support its expansionist agenda.
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Officials at Jewish organizations are furious over'The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,'a new paper by John Mearsheimer, a top international relations theorists based at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, the academic dean of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In their report � versions of which appear on the Kennedy School Web site and in the March 26 issue of the London Review of Books � the scholars depict'the Israel lobby'as a'loose coalition'of politicians, media outlets, research institutions, Jewish groups and Evangelical Christians that steers America's Middle East policy in directions beneficial to Israel, even if it requires harming American interests.
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Expose the Left has the video from Laura Ingraham's appearance yesterday on the Today show. The article contains excerpts of the exchange between Laura, Democratic strategist James Carville, and host David Gregory, but it does not adequately convey the general rancor and contentiousness. Gregory did not seem to be able to make a statement to Laura without including at least one put-down, while Carville was fed one softball question after another.
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This is Lee's fourth teaming with Denzel Washington, following Mo'Better Blues, Malcolm X, and He Got Game, a track record that speaks for itself. Washington plays Keith Frazier, a newly promoted detective, who must rise above a corruption scandal. Clive Owen is Dalton Russell, a brilliant criminal who upends what we think we know about a bank robbery. Jodie Foster is cast as Madeline White, a mysterious Manhattan power broker who gets accomplished exactly what her clients pay top dollar for.
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♥ Kristin Kreuk & Tom Welling ♥ Erica Durance & Tom Welling ♥ Maggie Grace & Tom Welling ♥ Sarah Carter & Tom Welling ♥ Maggie Grace & Ian Somerhalder ♥ Sophia Bush & Chad Michael Murray ♥ Bethany Joy Lenz & James Lafferty ♥ Katie Cassidy & Jesse Mccartney ♥ Britney Spears & Justin Timberlake ♥ Jessica Alba & Paul Walker ♥ Jessica Alba & Michael Weatherly ♥ Sarah Michelle Gellar & Freddie Prinze Jr. ♥ Sarah Michelle Gellar & David Boreanaz ♥ Reese Witherspoon & Ryan Phillippe ♥ Rachel Bilson & Adam Brody ♥ Emma Watson & Daniel Radcliffe ♥ Emma Watson & Tom Felton ♥ Emma Watson & Sean Biggerstaff ♥ Emma Watson & Robert Pattinson ♥ Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey ♥
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♥ Kristin Kreuk ♥ Erica Durance ♥ Britney Spears (before K-fed) ♥ Lindsay Lohan (redhead ONLY) ♥ Hilary Duff ♥ Sophia Bush ♥ Katie Cassidy * ♥ Jessica Alba ♥ Bethany Joy Lenz ♥ Emma Watson * ♥ Emmy Rossum ♥ Rachel Bilson ♥ Reese Witherspoon * ♥ Aly Michalka ♥ Ashley Olsen ♥ Charlize Theron ♥ Sarah Carter * ♥ Elisha Cuthbert ♥ Eliza Dushku ♥ Sarah Michelle Gellar ♥ Emily Vancamp ♥ Aly Hannigan ♥ Jessica Simpson * ♥ Kate Beckinsale ♥ Katie Holmes ♥ Kelly Clarkson ♥ Maggie Grace ♥ Rachel Mcadams ♥ Lacey Chabert * ♥
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on April 14th. I may have to get tickets to that show, too, unless I'm up in Boston with Sarah that weekend. I also went a little bit crazy on ebay after buying the USB/serial cable, picking up copies of John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things," Stan Getz's "Getz/Gilberto," and three Miles Davis albums, "Kind of Blue," "Porgy and Bess," and one other that I can't remember because the shipment hasn't arrived yet. All are vinyl Lps.
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[John Adams volunteers to visit New Brunswick after a report is given of Washington's soldiers being afflicted with venereal disease and alcoholism] John Adams: Wake up, Franklin, you 're going to New Brunswick! Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Half asleep] Like hell I am. What for? Hopkins: The whoring and the drinking! [Franklin hops up and immediately marches off right behind Adams]
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(thanks to for the heads up) So, the South Dakota abortion ban? Yeah, the Ogala Sioux aren't standing for it and are opening a Planned Parenthood on the reservation. (Article is here.) Here is information about donating or sending your verbal/written support.
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Well it looks like I am going to be in California this summer. If they play that stinking "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter on one more American Idol results show I am personally going to walk down Route 66 and punch whoever is in charge of that in the face. They have one more chance. I leave next Thursday. :-P "I had heard so much hype about In N Out. I was expecting the world and what I got was a hamburger." - Yvette
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MARCH 23 -- After posting the performance contracts of artists like Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, and U2, The Smoking Gun has finally obtained the backstage demands of a real rock star. That's right, below you'll find a copy of Vice President Dick Cheney's standard "tour" rider. Story Here
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We've had some really good times. I fell in love with you back when I found out you were going to play my video game idol, Lara Croft. I don't play many video games, and I think you 're really hot, so I knew it was fate. As I watched you shoot awesome guns and flip your wonderful braid around, kicking ass in cargo shorts and garter belt like gun holsters I realized I would never be the same.
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"A French TV documentary crew secretly filmed Imam Ahmed Akkari threatening to have Naser Khader -- a founder of Denmark's Democratic Muslims network, which opposes violent protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad -- bombed."
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What's the point of the United States'propping up the government of Afghanistan if it's not even going to pretend to respect basic human rights? President Bush himself said it was "deeply troubling" that an Afghan man is facing the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity.
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The U.S. Supreme Court held yesterday that a spouse can not consent to a police search of a home if the other spouse objects to the search. Chief Justice Roberts wrote his first dissent on the court, contending that this would endanger battered women.
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The popular drive time radio sport stalk duo, Mike Francesa and Christopher Russo, were discussing the two New York Yankees who have used steroids. High-priced mercenaries both, Jason Giambi has admitted his use, while Gary Sheffield has denied or refused to comment on the allegations. Russo, a San Fransisco Giant fan with the intellectual heft of a cotton puff, remarked that Yankee fans could now no longer razz him about Barry Bonds'doping in view of this news.
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The most common side effects with Cialis are headache, indigestion, back pain, muscle aches, flushing, and stuffy or runny nose. These side effects usually go away after a few hours. Patients who get back pain and muscle aches usually get it 12 to 24 hours after taking Cialis. Back pain and muscle aches usually go away by themselves within 48 hours. Call your doctor if you get a side effect that bothers you or one that will not go away.
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