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Mayor Ray Nagin's plan to shock the economy back to life by expanding gambling in a large part of the CBD was a shellshock to many of his colleagues. Nagin proposed allowing the city's largest hotels in a boundary between Poydras and Canal Streets from Claiborne Avenue to the river, to become full-fledged casinos. Nagin has admitted that his idea would be controversial, but he said he thought it could jump start the economy. "I'm out on a limb right now,” he said. “I didn't want any of my friends around me because this is usually controversial and I don't...

Note: The below article is my shameless attempt at parody. As you may have heard, the California Democratic Party along with Planned Parenthood and others are opposing Proposition 73, which would require parents be notified when teens receive abortions. They are saying that girls may be too afraid to tell their parents and therefore will not receive the treatment they need. Therefore, parents should be kept ignorant for the good of the kids. That makes perfect sense to me. In fact, I would suggest taking this another step further. Right now, California Public Schools require that parents see their student's...

CONSERVATIVE outrage over US President George W. Bush's pick of Texan lawyer Harriet Miers to fill a Supreme Court vacancy continued as activists called on the White House to withdraw her nomination. Former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the president should name someone else to fill the vacancy on the US high court. "I would like to see the nomination withdrawn. If I were in the Senate today I would vote against it," Mr Buchanan said. "My guess is, she will not be confirmed, and she will be withdrawn." The Weekly Standard called the...

The US missile defence program, initially written off by sceptics as a waste of money and effort, can already intercept and destroy a North Korean ballistic missile aimed at the US mainland. On a brief visit to Australia, US Missile Defence Agency director Henry Obering said the program already had nine missile interceptors between California and Alaska. The system is mainly being configured to cope with missiles launched from North Korea or the Middle East, but it will ultimately have the ability to cope with missiles from anywhere. Australia is deeply involved in the program as one of just four...

[To the Traditional Anglican ping list: Most of you know I usually post material without commentary; all I want to say about the following is to suggest you note the absence of any discussion of "communion," what that means and entails, and its relationship to the "crisis." --sionnsar] In Gays and the Future of Anglicanism: Responses to the Windsor Report Marilyn McCord Adams, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, offers an essay which is aptly described by Bill Carroll as a "barn burner." Adams begins by describing the "new polity" presented...

PETA's Latest Line Hard to Swallow September 29, 2005 The bottom-feeders at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have come up with a new way to turn children against their parents: a gruesome comic entitled "Your Daddy Kills Animals," telling kids that fathers who fish are murderers. PETA operatives began handing out the graphic flyers to children on September 24, "Fish Amnesty Day" (apparently for the liberation of all those piscine political prisoners). This comes nearly two years after PETA activists, clad in animal suits, began forcing the similarly inspired "Your Mommy Kills Animals" comic into young...

Boston doctors used cells taken from a pregnant lamb's amniotic fluid to grow a new trachea, then implanted the organ into the ailing fetus, an experiment that may pave the way for similar treatment in humans. Using cells from amniotic fluid to repair or replace human organs may bypass some of the political and ethical obstacles doctors encounter with fetal cells, said Children's Hospital Boston pediatric surgeon Dario Fauza, who led the experiments. "You avoid all the ethical dilemmas of the embryonic stem cell," Fauza said. "The cells are already there" in the mother's amniotic fluid. "We are just harvesting...

NEW YORK - A reported plot to bomb city subways with remote-controlled explosives has not been corroborated after days of investigation, law-enforcement officials said Sunday amid an easing sense of concern. ADVERTISEMENT Interrogations of suspects captured in Iraq last week after an informant's tip about bomb-laden suitcases and baby carriages have yet to yield evidence that the plot was real, officials said. "The intelligence community has been able to determine that there are very serious doubts about the credibility of this specific threat," Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke said. "This is after ongoing review and analysis." Homeland Security officials...

Wicked witch of Left: how Hillary became a storybook villainBy James Langton(Filed: 09/10/2005) A children's picture book for conservatives whose villains include Hillary Clinton and Senator Ted Kennedy has become the surprise publishing hit of the year. Sales of Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed! have rivalled even the latest Harry Potter novel, with the book racing up the best-seller charts after it was published two weeks ago.   'Congresswoman Clunkton' Written by Katharine DeBrecht, a mother of three, it tells the story of two young brothers who try to make money from a lemonade stall but are thwarted...

1. Donald Tusk (social moderate, fiscal conservative) 35,82% 2. Lech Kaczynski (social conservative, fiscal moderate) 33,29% 3. Andrzej Lepper (left-wing populist) 15,59% 4. Marek Borowski (socialdemocrat) 10,19% 5. Jaroslaw Kalinowski (agrarian moderate) 1,85% 6. Janusz Korwin-Mikke (libertarian) 1,41% 7. Henryka Bochniarz (liberal) 1,25% Other candidates received less than 1%.

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Over the course of the past few days, I have read several justifications (by conservatives) for supporting President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, several of which have already been artfully addressed by my good friend Jeremy. One he did not address, and which has really begun to stick in my craw, is the assertion that we should support Harriet Miers because she gave us Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen, Bill Pryor, and other stellar appellate court nominees. A little research reveals that this is blatantly false at worst, deceitfully misleading at best. Harriet Miers has held...

The members of the Muslim Council of Britain were outraged at the BBC after the broadcasting of the popular program, 'Panorama' last week which tackled the failure of the council in its supervision of 400 mosques and Muslim organizations in Britain to curb extremists. The 'Panorama' special dealt with interviews with Islamic leaders in Britain who expressed their support for suicide operations against Israeli civilians yet condemned the London attacks. The episode also discussed the Islamic view of Christians, Jews and Hindus and the reality that some Muslims consider members of other religions as atheists. The BBC program was full...

THE trial of Saddam Hussein should start as scheduled but could be adjourned after just a day or two of procedural argument, according to the tribunal set up to try the former dictator. The court confirmed last week that the five judges of Trial Chamber No. 1 would open proceedings on October 19 against Saddam and seven others for crimes against humanity in the killing of over 140 Shi'ite Muslim villagers at Dujail in 1982. "I would call it the beginning of an ongoing process," the source, speaking on condition of anonymity said. The first day, or perhaps a couple...

A minister asked Harriet Miers' fellow worshippers on Sunday to pray for her as she prepares for public scrutiny and intense political debate over her nomination to the Supreme Court. The congregation of the Cornerstone Christian Church, a group meeting at a Dallas hotel after breaking away from another local church, stood and applauded when the minister noted Miers' presence. She had attended services earlier in the morning at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, where her brother and other family members belong. Cornerstone Minister Ron Key asked the 150-member congregation at the hotel to understand "the crucible of...

In the Orthodox Church there are four Eucharistic Liturgies used. The most common is the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, the liturgy used on all Sundays except those which fall during the Great Lent, and all holy days on which a eucharistic liturgy is served except for the eves of Pascha, Christmas and Theophany, Holy Thursday, and the feastday of St. Basil the Great (January 1). The Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, used on the Sundays of Great Lent, Holy Thursday, the Eves of Pascha, Christmas, and Theophany, and the Feast of St. Basil the Great. The...

http://www.powells.com/authors/swofford.html A Gulf War veteran speaks out. "I was over there to fight for oil" October 25, 2002 | Page 6. ANTHONY SWOFFORD is a former Marine corporal who fought in the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq. http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808640992&cf=info Release Date: November 4th, 2005 (wide). When a young man joins the Marines and trains to be a sniper, he finds himself plunged into the chaotic swirl of sand, oil, fire and death that was the Gulf War. [Maelstrom] Sons of bitches are casting this movie in seductive terms. Don't get suckered into this money pit by terrorist propagandists. Quotes from various...

GERMAN Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder met his conservative rival Angela Merkel on the weekend amid reports he was ready to concede defeat and allow her to become chancellor. The political stalemate caused by inconclusive elections three weeks earlier appeared to be nearing a solution, but no decision will be announced until Monday (local time). Ms Merkel and Mr Schroeder were to hold a further meeting after the outcome of Sunday's talks had been put to their respective party leaderships. The leaders maintained their promise not to comment after Sunday's discussions, just as they stayed silent after their first leadership summit on...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poles picked two centre-right candidates with roots in the Solidarity movement for a run-off presidential ballot on October 23, which may be decided by leftist voters suspicious of both contenders. Exit polls and partial results of Sunday's election gave free-market enthusiast Donald Tusk around 36 percent of the vote, a 3-point lead over conservative Lech Kaczynski, but short of the 50 percent needed to avoid a second round of voting. Both finished well ahead of 10 other candidates, cementing a swing to the right in Poland after their parties trounced the scandal-tainted ruling left in parliamentary polls...

That missing Article of Religion dropped by the PECUSA and recovered (but only as historical text) in the ECUSA When the Protestant Episcopal Church adopted The Articles of Religion in 1801 as a Formulary (to stand alongside the American editions of The Book of Common Prayer and Ordinal of 1789 & 1792), it did not adopt them exactly as they are found in The Book of Common Prayer (1662) of the Church of England. For example, Article XXI “Of the Authority of General Councils” of the original Articles is not printed in the American 1801 edition. But these words of...