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Ben Affleck is not just smitten with John Kerry's younger daughter, he likes the older one too.In a gooey valentine for Vanity Fair Magazine, Affleck describes the younger Vanessa and older Alexandra as 'absurdly beautiful, well spoken and intelligent.'The Kerry girls, Affleck writes, are 'such phenomenal achievers that they might come off as the too-perfect prep school girls who are invariably the villians in John Hughes movies.' Alexandra, a tall brunette with model looks, laughs off the furor she caused at the Cannes Film Fesitval in May when flashbulbs revealed she had nothing on under her sheer black dress.'I am...

MELBOURNE, Australia - Prison officials Thursday rejected a mass murderer's application to be allowed to wear makeup while serving his 30-year sentence. The ruling came after secret negotiations Tuesday between Paul Denyer and prison officials in Australia's southern Victoria state. Denyer, 31, was convicted of stabbing and strangling three young women during a three-week killing spree in Melbourne in 1993. Since being imprisoned 11 years ago, he has made headlines by asking for a sex change and demanding the right to wear makeup. His request for a sex change was also rejected.

OCALA - A newly married 23 year old teacher pursues a 14 year old and for the second time that has resulted in an arrest decides to have sex with him. According to news reports, Debra Lafave, went from her home just northeast of Tampa to Ocala Florida to have sex with the 14 year old. All of this while the 14 year old's cousin of 15 drove them around. Lafave is a reading instructor at a junior high school. According to the cousin, Lafave pursued it partly because "it was illegal". She has recently secured a new attorney, has...

Maryland congressman,Elijah Cummings, has just stated on WCBM radio, that Condoleza Rice and George Bush had warnings that 9/11 was about to happen and did nothing.

<p>February 4, 2004 -- BEFORE the liberation of Iraq, the war cry of the "Don't touch Saddam" lobby was: Let's have a U.N. resolution. Now that he's behind bars, the Saddam fan club has found a new slogan: Let's have an inquiry.</p>

CBN.com – WASHINGTON -- Homosexuals have won so many battles in legislatures, courts and the media, they can almost taste total victory just ahead. Gay rights lobbyist Toni Broaddus said, "We stand at this turning point in history. It's truly a historical moment." Ben Bull, legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, a traditional values advocacy group, agrees. Bull said, "The homosexual agenda is making major gains, just in the last 10 or 15 years." Atlanta pastor D.L. Foster is an ex-homosexual. He said of homosexuals, "They have a plan. They are executing that plan with precision, and they are...

I wanted to invite everyone to greet our newest signup, whyareyoudumbandhateful. Do you think his or her first post will be to make a donation on the Freepathon thread?

Canada's gay newlyweds are making news ... againTime honours their revolutionIt's `an amazing year for us' ASHANTE INFANTRYSTAFF REPORTER It may not have been the wedding of the century, but Michael Leshner and Michael Stark's nuptials are being credited with sparking a cultural revolution.And now the newlyweds, the first gay couple to receive a legal marriage licence in Ontario, have been chosen as Time magazine's 2003 Canadian Newsmaker of the Year."I think it just tops off what's been an amazing year for us," Stark said yesterday. "I call 2003 the Year of the Michaels."In the magazine's annual Person of the...

LONDON - NOVEMBER 24: British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac listen to the national anthem on November 24, 2003 in London. President Chirac is in London for talks with other European leaders as part of the British-French Summit being held today. (Photo by Graeme Robertson/Getty Images)

Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Former WorldCom Inc. Chief Financial Officer Scott Sullivan, who's accused of leading a multibilliondollar accounting fraud, says he should get no more than 12 1/2 years in prison if convicted, about half what's called for under U.S. guidelines. As part of its crackdown on corporate fraud, Congress in 2001 adjusted the guidelines to increase sentences for whitecollar criminals who plead guilty or are convicted at trial. As a result, Sullivan says he might receive as much as 24 1/2 years in prison if he's found guilty. Sullivan now wants a judge to rule that the guidelines...

<p>And now here we are, at a shimmeringly historic moment where we cannot help but note the delicious irony, the divine karmic genius of it all.</p> <p>When we cannot help but notice how millions of progressive love-minded Gay Pride folks across America, from S.F. to N.Y., from Atlanta to Seattle to Chicago, were actually cheering on the Supreme Court last week -- the same crusty bunch that snuck BushCo into office in the first place -- for slapping the tragically heartless GOP right across its wan butt with a leather whip and a shocking 6-3 decision, stunning the Christian right into disbelief and abject terror.</p>

Who is involved, Where do they stand IS it an act of terrorisom to fullfill this plan?

Sheryl Crow wore a white T-shirt emblazoned with "War Is Not the Answer" when she accepted her American Music Award in January. Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst was received with cheers when he said, "This war has got to go away as soon as possible" during the Grammy telecast. But when Natalie Maines of the country music trio the Dixie Chicks said from a London stage that she was "ashamed" that President Bush was from Texas, the result was quite different. Angry fans flooded radio stations in San Diego, Nashville and Dallas with calls demanding that the Dixie Chicks' music...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE JAN 21, 2003 17:59:25 ET XXXXX MAG: 25% OF NEW HIV-INFECTED GAY MEN SOUGHT OUT VIRUS, SAYS SAN FRAN HEALTH OFFICIAL New ROLLING STONE Managing Editor Ed Needham is set to hit complete controversy with a 4-page report: "Bug Chasers: The Men Who Secretly Long To Be HIV+." Filed by Greg Freeman, the shock story claims some men with HIV are deliberately having unprotected sex with those who want to be infected! MORE "The men who want the virus are called 'bug chasers,' and the men who freely give them the virus are called 'gift...

MIDI - BEND ME, SHAPE ME I am in big trouble, so says my tarot card reader I will do the things that I must to stay Senate leader I will get down on my knees And then I'll grovel and plead Jesse and Al…oh, pretty please I'll bend over and I'll grab my ankles Tell me what's needed, my good friends I'll bend over and I'll grab my ankles I am prepared to take it in the end I am finally seeing the light…we need reparations Giving people what they deserve will heal our nation I will get...

Gay ex-Falcon comes out -- but is he famous enough to change anything? Bryant Gumbel let me down. For at least a week, Gumbel has been promoting his HBO show's "coming out" interview next Tuesday with a former NFL player. Speculation sprouted all over Internet chat rooms and even in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where rumors had been whispered about a former Viking. Who would it be? Gay folks are always hoping celebrities will come out of the closet publicly. We get downright giddy about a glamorous, male athlete doing so because -- well, because it's never really happened before....

The Inter-Fraternity Council at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, voted Monday to accept the Alpha Psi chapter of national gay fraternity Delta Lambda Phi, according to a press release from Delta Lambda Phi. The Kent State chapter of Delta Lambda Phi met with resistance in the spring when the chapter first petitioned for membership on the council, even though the group had been on campus since February 2000. "We're very pleased with the IFC's decision," said Joshua Dudeck, president of the Alpha Psi Chapter. "I wasn't sure how the vote was going to go, to be honest. This is...

For Immediate ReleaseMonday, July 15, 2002 Contact: Paul Wilkinson202-225-6168 Policy Chairman’s Child Support Enforcement Act to be Introduced News Conference: 11:45 a.m., Tuesday, July 16, Cannon Terrace, with Rep. Cox, Sen. Boxer Helps Families Owed Child Support WASHINGTON--House Policy Chairman Christopher Cox (R-CA) and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) will join a group of parents and children owed child support Tuesday to introduce legislation that gives immediate relief to over two million families owed child support, and encourages delinquent parents to pay child support on time. “I’m pleased that the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support will be joining...

AUSTIN -- Acting Lt. Gov. Bill Ratliff is drafting a school-funding formula that would include a statewide property tax, an idea that Republican Gov. Rick Perry said Friday he'd "take a look at." Ratliff, the architect of the current school-funding system that relies heavily on local property taxes, is drafting the plan for the 2003 legislative session, when lawmakers are expected to consider whether to overhaul the entire system. Through a spokeswoman, Ratliff declined to give any details of his plan, but confirmed it is in the works. Ratliff expects to present the plan at next month's meeting of the...