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Monthly Archives: September 2005
Bush Back on the Bottle?
Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal. Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe. … Continue reading
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Yakuza Steering Hurricanes
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho weatherman says Japan’s Yakuza mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge itself for the Hiroshima atom bomb attack — and that this technology will soon … Continue reading
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Life Imitates Art Department
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A U.S. doctor has sued a Seattle-area newspaper for defamation after it reported he posed as his twin, a gynecologist, to have sex with his brother’s patients. Dennis Momah said the King County Journal defamed him in … Continue reading
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Godless Bible Designed for Public Schools
NEW YORK — An interfaith group released a new textbook yesterday aimed at teaching public high school students about the Bible while avoiding legal and religious disputes. The nonprofit Bible Literacy Project of Fairfax, Va., spent five years and $2 … Continue reading
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Stumped – Blogger on a Short Leash
Sometimes the Dowbrigade feels stumped for subjects to Blog on. It’s not that your faithful correspondent lacks for ideas, rants or motivation. Rather, it is that so many fecund fields are off-limits to our free-ranging interest. We cannot blog about … Continue reading
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Mattel Says Doll Fulla Crap
DAMASCUS, Syria, Sept. 21 – In the last year or so, Barbie dolls have all but disappeared from the shelves of many toy stores in the Middle East. In their place, there is Fulla, a dark-eyed doll with, as her … Continue reading
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Mattel Says Doll Fulla Rip-off
DAMASCUS, Syria, Sept. 21 – In the last year or so, Barbie dolls have all but disappeared from the shelves of many toy stores in the Middle East. In their place, there is Fulla, a dark-eyed doll with, as her … Continue reading
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Coincidence or a Profile in Courage?
Poll: Jordan top anti-Jew nation Jordan leads the Islamic world in its antipathy for Jews according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center. The poll, which surveyed 17,000 people in 17 countries, said 100 percent of Jordanians viewed … Continue reading
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Get Ready for Five Dollar Gas
(click to enlarge) NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Remember when gas spiked to $3-plus a gallon after Hurricane Katrina? By this time next week, that could seem like the good old days. Weather and energy experts say that as bad as … Continue reading
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Heaven in a Hurry: 100-minute Bible
LONDON (AFP) – Business folk are used to reading executive summaries of important documents, and now would-be Christians are to have the same privilege, in the form of a chopped-down Bible that can be read in under two hours. A … Continue reading
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Heaven in a Hurry: 100-minute Bible
LONDON (AFP) – Business folk are used to reading executive summaries of important documents, and now would-be Christians are to have the same privilege, in the form of a chopped-down Bible that can be read in under two hours. A … Continue reading
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Comic of the Day: Part 2
The Dowbrigade has been in this situation, many times. Worse, since the little wanderer in our family is an eight-year-old female honey-colored Tabby named, appropriately, Honey. She’s not supposed to go out, but does, regularly. Early one Sunday morning last … Continue reading
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