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'Sir' title sought for bin Laden to avenge Rushdie knighthood Posted on : 2007-06-20 | Author : DPA News Category : Asia Islamabad - A hard-line Pakistani parliamentarian and head of a religious political party on Wednesday demanded a "sir" title for Osama bin Laden, the lead of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, in retaliation for Britain knighting author Salman Rushdie. "Muslims should confer the 'sir' title and all other awards on bin Laden and Mullah Omar in reply to Britain's shameful decision to knight Rushdie," Sami ul Haq, leader of the pro-Taliban Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, said in a statement, referring also...

Summer of love: 40 years later Hippie Hippie Shakedown: But where was love? BY DAWN EDEN, Guest Columnist LA Daily News WHEN it comes to inappropriate names, "Summer of Love" has to be right up there with "Joy Division," the name the Nazis reportedly gave to the sections of concentration camps that housed the guards' sex slaves. For one thing, it was not just a summer event. The countercultural happening that swept through San Francisco and beyond began with an April1967 planning announcement by concert promoter Chet Helms, aka Family Dog, creating the "Council for the Summer of Love." It...

St. Louis Election Board officials say they've discovered at least 1,492 "potentially fraudulent" voter registration cards - including three from dead people and one from a 16-year-old - among the thousands pouring in before today's voter registration deadline for the Nov. 7 election. City Republican elections director Scott Leiendecker said the board's staff expects to find even more bogus voter-registration applications among the thousands remaining to be processed. The board plans to turn all the questionable cards over to city Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce for investigation and possible prosecution, said board chairman Kimberley Mathis. The board says all the questionable...

Police are investigating an injured Kansas Army National Guardsman’s reports that he has been the victim of a beating and repeated vandalism involving burned flags in recent days. The 23-year-old soldier, Marion G. Coleman III, says he awoke Wednesday morning and found someone had "egged" his apartment at Cedarwood Apartments in the 2400 block of Ousdahl Road and had left four burned flags outside. Three of the flags were small cloth flags on sticks, and the third was a larger flag that had been folded into a triangle, he said. Coleman said he didn’t report the incident to police until...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Association of Trial Lawyers of America voted during its convention this week to change its name to the American Association for Justice. Spokeswoman Chris Mather said there was overwhelming support for the change, and that the new name "reflects whose side we're on in the fight for justice." The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, a critic of the trial lawyers group, called it "an astounding admission of the unpopularity of trial lawyers in America." The 60-year-old association has 65,000 members.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2006 – A vehicle bomb killed five Iraqis today, and Iraqi and U.S. soldiers have continued to arrest suspected terrorists and find weapons, military officials reported. Two Iraqi adults and three children were killed in Hillah when a minivan, which had been used as a taxi, exploded. The minivan was traveling in the southern district of Hillah when it reportedly was stopped. An unidentified man left the vehicle, entered a red sedan, and drove away. Moments later, the minivan exploded. The minivan's occupants suffered minor injuries and were taken to the Hillah medical treatment facility, officials said....

When the Firm Foundation Worship Center got the call that a family of nine escaping Hurricane Katrina had arrived in Westminster needing a house, church members jumped into action. "They came here with nothing," said Marge DiMaggio, the church's co-pastor. As quickly as possible, church members made a house on church property look like a home. When the Brown family left on Sunday, the DiMaggios were horrified to find the house in shambles. "Hurricane hits Firm Foundation," said Marge DiMaggio. While answering the call in September, church members' hearts were filled with compassion for the unknown family. "We brought our...

The Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Sign the call now!Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights. Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it. Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night. Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2005 – A U.S. soldier was killed and two others were wounded in a roadside-bomb during a combat logistics patrol Oct. 18 near Iskandariyah, Iraq, military officials reported. The soldier killed was assigned to 56th Brigade Combat Team. The soldier's name is being withheld pending notification of family. In other news, Task Force Baghdad and Iraqi security forces discovered weapons caches and detained several suspects Oct. 18 and today. Today, soldiers assigned to 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, conducted a raid in Camel, detaining three terror suspects. They also confiscated ammunition and explosives, including 3,000 rounds of...

Stealing Candy From Babies - The Air America Story I don't listen to Air America. Why? Well, because it doesn't broadcast where I live, that's why. If they did, I might—If Rush Limbaugh were dead, Sean Hannity were in a coma, and G. Gordon Liddy was out of the country toppling some unauthorized dictatorship, that is. ....But what when the motives move from profit to larceny?

MIDI - SATISFACTION We'll look into his adoptions...because we are out of options We will pry, we will spy...we'll make sure he won't fly His adoptions...his adoptions Bush picked him from the right wing...he's dividing us, as always He should not do such things Our side had given a warning that's loud and clear But Bush stuck it in our ear We'll look into...oh, yeah, yeah, yeah We're the TIMES, and we will slime We'll look into his adoptions...because we are out of options We will pry, we will spy...we'll make sure he won't fly His adoptions...his adoptions We...

"FORT WORTH - A judge ordered a new trial in an aggravated-assault case after learning that a juror belittled the defendant on the Internet before a verdict had been reached. On Monday, state District Judge Sharen Wilson overturned the March 10 conviction of Raymond David Newsome because of juror misconduct. Newsome was convicted for the beating of a 73-year-old guard outside Grapevine Mills mall. The juror, posted remarks on a Yahoo Web page calling Newsome a "scumsucking liberal" and a "bum" during the course of Newsome's aggravated-assault trial. Wilson, who declined to discuss the case, set the retrial for July...

Are you a hater? Do you consider yourself to be superior based on your race, religion, sexual orientation? Are you a self-righteous blowhard? If you are reading this, then you most likely are one. What makes you so superior? Because of your religion? What about all the Islams who are acting just as self-righteous and oppressive and "RIGHT" as you?? Moslems and Homosexuals aren't the scourge of the world. Intolerance, judgmentalism, and vice-pointing (i.e. You're going to hell because you do this or that, or don't believe exactly what I believe). You've got it all wrong as far as I'm...

Activism A Seattle Central Community College campus antiwar group, Students Against War, is in hot water after students chased U.S. Army recruiters off the SCCC campus during an Inauguration Day anti-Bush rally. Nobody was hurt in the incident, in which students ripped up recruiting literature and verbally confronted recruiters. Right-wing bloggers and radio talk shows across the country have gotten hold of the story and are besieging SCCC administrators with demands to discipline the students. The upshot, says Pete Knutson, the students' faculty adviser, was a letter from the administration demanding that the students apologize by Thursday or have their...

<p>A picture's worth a thousand words. My question: Why didn't the security guards escort the PROTESTERS out of the building??? Disgusting.</p>

<p>After spending the day convening, recessing, reconvening and caucusing, the Virginia House of Delegates voted 52-46 this afternoon in favor of a bill whose passage could signal the beginning of the end of Virginia's three-month budget crisis.</p> <p>The delegates voted about 5:15 p.m. on a bill that would raise about $850 million through higher sales and cigarette taxes, as well as other fee changes.</p>

Sunday, March 21, 2004 Kennedy Stands By International Man Of Mystery   KENNEDY STANDS BY INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY Massachusetts' No. 2 Says CIA Knows Of Kerry's Foreign Leader Endorsements__________________________________________________________KENNEDY: FOREIGN LEADERS WHO ENDORSED KERRY NOT "BIG MYSTERY" Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Says CIA Knows Which Foreign Leaders Have Endorsed Kerry. KENNEDY: "The fact is, he's obviously met leaders over a period of time. And everyone – the CIA knows who they – the White House is really interested in those leaders? They control the CIA – the CIA gives them those lists. Everyone knows at the United Nations...

KERRY AND TERRY INSULT NATIONAL GUARD Kerry Associates National Guard Service With Draft-Dodging, DNC Chair Says Not Military_______________________________________________________KERRY AND TERRY BELITTLE NATIONAL GUARD SERVICESen. John Kerry (D-MA) Compares Guard Service To Draft-Dodging. “‘If people went to Canada, if people opposed the war, if people chose to be in the Guard, that’s their choice, and I’ve never raised that in an issue,’ he said.” (Noelle Straub, “Kerry Presents Himself As GOP’s Worst Nightmare,” Boston Herald, 2/3/04)Kerry Repeats Insult Of Guard.  “‘I’ve never made any judgments about any choice somebody made about avoiding the draft, about going to Canada, going to...