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      Thursday, 17 July 2008 10:00 am - Funeral Mass - Great Upper Church Open to the Public Doors open at 8:00 a.m. (Will Need to Pass through Security Checkpoint Magnetometers) The Most Reverend Donald W. Wuerl Archbishop of Washington Presider Reverend David O’Connell, CM President of The Catholic University of America Celebrant & Homilist Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception 400 Michigan Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20017 Metro: Red Line – Brookland/CUA In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to: Dana Farber Cancer Institute

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.S.-based television channel investigating the existence of the legendary Yeti in Nepal has found footprints similar to those said to be that of the abominable snowman, the company said on Friday. A team of nine producers from Destination Truth, armed with infrared cameras, spent a week in the icy Khumbu region where Mount Everest is located and found the footprints on the bank of Manju river at a height of 2,850 meters (9,350 feet). One of the three footprints discovered on Wednesday is about one foot long, or is of similar size and appearance as shown...

The SnowFlake Fan Club has received an alert that our very own Snowman, Tony Snow, will be a guest on the David Letterman Show, tonight, Thursday October 4th. Letterman's show is on CBS TV at 11:30pm EDT and the exact time of Tony's appearance is not yet known. This is a live thread for the show.

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Tony Snow is about to appear live on FOX & Friends on FOX News. The subject is Bush's push for immigration "reform".

This is a special Thread.   Today is Tony Snow's Birthday and we'd like to wish him a Happy 52nd Birthday!    Woo hoo!    Happy Birthday, Tony!Please add your good wishes and thoughts here

        Hello, everyone!   We have a special occasion for today's Cheers to Tony Snow Thread-- it's his birthday!   The Cheers to Tony Snow Thread allows FReepers to post messages of good tidings to the Snowman.   If you’d like on or off the Tony Snow ping list, please post a request. All requests happily honored.  

In naming Snow, president chooses a press secretary unafraid to voice his 'own opinions' WASHINGTON - After being tapped by President Bush as the new White House press secretary, Fox News personality Tony Snow on Wednesday wasted no time switching on his spin machine, describing his past differences with the administration as an asset now. "They want people to express their opinions," Snow said of the famously insular Bush White House. "You're not coming here to drink the Kool-Aid, you're coming to serve the president." As an outspoken conservative pundit, Snow has called Bush politically "impotent" and complained in his...

       Tony Snow is back and better than ever!  Tony's guests and topics on today's Tony Snow Show include: Sensible People Object What does it mean when sensible politicians like Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) object to the port deal? Tony takes a close look.Bush Comes Down Hard The President came out strong on the port issue, saying he would veto any legislation to block the port deal. The President's protected us before; should we trust him this time?So What's Really Going On at the Ports? Intrepid reporter Griff Jenkins...

Snowzilla may be the only Alaskan getting more press than Sen. Ted Stevens. More than 16 feet tall, the giant snowman towering above homes on once-sleepy Columbine Street is drawing hundreds of locals and tourists and scoring airtime and headlines across the nation -- and even the world. "I guess they like snowmen in Russia, because they had a news team from Moscow here yesterday," said Billy Powers, Snowzilla's creator. "We get a traffic jam here at least once an hour. It must be people are just tired of hearing about Iraq or something." Powers stood across the street from...

       Tony Snow is back and better than ever!  Tony's guests and topics on today's Tony Snow Show include: Joementum Is it a good idea to tap Sen. Joe Lieberman for the Secretary of Defense? We'll ask Senator George Allen (R-VA).Phantom Cops Tony had heard unconfirmed reports that the New Orleans police officers were artificially padding their ranks. He'll take a closer look at the story.The War Continues It's worse than you thought. American atheists now claim Christians "stole Christmas from pagans." When will it be okay to celebrate Christmas again? You can find out more information about the...

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       Tony's guests and topics on today's show include: The Key Voices We've been hearing all week about conservative support and doubts regarding Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. But what do the conservative Senators on the Judiciary Committee think? We'll talk with Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sam Brownback (R-KS). Boomer Sooner The Has-Been Media has not dealt with the Oklahoma University student who blew himself up near the football stadium. Could he have been a suicide bomber? Tony investigates. Kettle? This is Pot. You're Black. Bill Clinton insists that "the odds are not great of us prevailing"...

Footsteps in the snow The readers' editor on... the manipulation of pictures Ian Mayes Saturday March 5, 2005 The Guardian About a week ago the Guardian published a photograph captioned "Spring flowers seem to be surviving the snow storm, just, in Edinburgh." It was credited to David Cheskin and the agency that employs him, the Press Association. A little before 8pm that day the PA put out what it called a "mandatory kill" - an order, in other words, that the picture was not to be published and was to be wiped from picture archives. Too late of course for...

A globe-trotting inflatable snowman who disappeared from a garden last Christmas has sent postcards to its owner from exotic destinations around the world. The 5ft blow-up snowman, who signs his name Frosty, went missing from Helen Bevan's back garden two weeks before Christmas last year. Since then Mrs Bevan, 42, of Tondu, south Wales, has received postcards from Tenerife, Antigua, Thailand, Mexico, Malaysia and Hong Kong, all signed with the words "all my love, Frosty". Mrs Bevan said she has only seen Frosty once since his disappearance. She said: "I was shocked when I heard a knock at the door...

Miracle of the Snow to Be Commemorated at St. Mary Major "Liberian" Basilica Will Be Inundated with Flowers on Tuesday VATICAN CITY, AUGUST 1, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The patriarchal basilica of St. Mary Major will be "inundated" with white petals on Tuesday, August 5, solemn feast of St. Mary of the Snows. The celebration recalls the dedication of the basilica and the famous "miracle of snow," which occurred on August 5, 358 A.D. when snow fell on this little Roman hill of the Esquiline, one of Rome's famous seven hills. It was taken as an extraordinary sign -- August is a...

I just saw it on MSNBC. They said she was at a party a week ago, 3 days before Kobe was charged. They said she was drinking (consumption by a minor) and playing cards, and was bragging about.....(MSNBC took out the audio at the end of sentence) The story was confirmed by 5 people at separate places and times who were at the party and all gave a similar account of what happened. When asked how the girl looked, the guy interviewed said she looked happy. Everyone was shocked to see her at the party given the incident. I think...