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Listen Up, Rappin' Crew, Come On In And Take A Pew... Church Tries To Appeal To The Young By STEVE DOUGHTY 15th September 2009 Taking the rap? Will the 'rap-style poem' in a radio advert tempt young people to go to church (posed by model) In the beginning, the elders gathered and set up a mighty cry: How are we to get young people into church? And, lo, they decreed: Let there be rap. In a move which risks ridicule, the Church of England has turned to street culture in the hope of attracting new blood. A radio advert will...

A MAN charged over the fatal Black Saturday blaze at Churchill will face a pre-trial hearing next May. Brendan Sokaluk, 39, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court via video link from the Melbourne Assessment Prison today. He is facing 191 charges, including 10 counts of arson causing death as well as intentionally causing a bushfire, criminal damage, recklessly causing injury and possessing child pornography. The court heard there were 610 witnesses in the case.

Be warned pet lovers, this isn't for you! Very rough language but funny as heck. http://www.rhyner.com/stopgo.mp3

Lately I have been looking at the moon and wondering if it will someday kill me. If I live another 50 years (which is entirely possible) I assume I will eventually be a robot, having shed my old skin and bones body and uploaded a scanned and digitized version of my brain to a machine. My fellow robots and I will live among the meat people for eons until the moon's orbit degrades, either gradually or because a meteor gives it a nudge, and Earth is annihilated in the collision. You might say I worry too much. But I've successfully...

Fellow freepaholics: I need assistance pulling up info on those in Congress who have been "bought" by special interests, big business, big labor, overseas influence. This includes congress, president, past presidents, etc. The vision: the 60-s and 70-s were branded into peoples minds with the music, sights, sounds and protests. The Goal: Brand the tea party & spirit of limited government with remade song parody of 70's songs like: The Who: Who bought you? Who? Who Who? Who? Ideas to get this started: Clinton: WTO jobs to China, Mob mentality of unions, Insurance company giants buying out politicians, Greed, Bribes,...

Did I hear O'Reilly says on the Fox news Factor that 75,000 attended the September 12 rally in DC? This guy is a fool.

SNIPPET: "The word Nazi and at least eight other swastikas also were painted on a sidewalk and driveway in the area, Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath member Sarah Rivkin told the newspaper. Congregants at Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath and the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation were attending Selichot services during the incident."

SEATTLE - Police are investigating after swastikas were spray-painted overnight on two synagogues and outside private homes in the Brighton neighborhood.

Senate votes on Johanns amendment to cut off ACORN housing funds: Amendment passes, 83-7 Seven Senators voted NO (All Democrats) Burris (D-IL) Casey (D-PA) Durbin (D-IL) Gillibrand (D-NY) Leahy (D-VT) Sanders (I-VT) Whitehouse (D-RI) Nine of our Nitwits didn't have the courage to vote - including (guess who) - John McCain Burr (R-NC) Byrd (D-WV) Coburn (R-OK) Graham (R-SC) Gregg (R-NH) Hutchison (R-TX) McCain (R-AZ) Mikulski (D-MD) Vitter (R-LA) What is the matter with these people ? Is it me ? hat tip Errol - Still Puzzled After All These Year)

No one can deny that the GOP, celebrating 155 years of existence this year, has been a significant factor in the American polity. The Republicans have won 22 presidential elections to the Democrats’ 16, and can lay claim to the one president that transcended partisan politics–Abraham Lincoln. No Democratic president in history comes close, not even FDR. Lincoln’s leadership in the civil war and his abolition of slavery are often portrayed as American achievements as opposed to Republican successes. The GOP has also had at least three dominant periods in which they fashioned social, economic, and international policy: 1893 to...

Update: Amendment passes, 83-7 Just watched GOP Sen. Mike Johanns introduce his amendment on the Senate floor banning federal funds in the current transportation and housing appropriations bill from going to ACORN. Currently, ACORN is eligible to receive millions more in taxpayer funds through mortgage counseling, Community Development Block Grants, and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program — in addition to the tens of millions ACORN Housing Corp. has already received.

I got away from the war room and this computer for a while today, figured it was time to slack off on the "progressives" for a while. I've been picking on the local bunch without mercy, LOL. They are all so mad they are taking to strong drink!I found the Snowy Egret and the Roseate Spoonbill at the little pond I hang out at, the Great Egret was at Maria Sanchez Lake, downtown. It was heading out to look for lizards and bugs in the shrubs along the street. This shot is with my antique Olympus C2100UZ, the others with...

Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. "Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months," said a statement released Monday evening by his publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were given. Fans of the actor were saddened to learn in March 2008 that Swayze was suffering from a particularly deadly form of cancer.

Conservatives can’t deny the courage, conviction and effectiveness of Glenn Beck’s crusade against the Progressive movement and corruption in our nation’s capital. Glenn’s efforts have emboldened many to stand tall and fearless for traditional America. Beck single handedly got a wacko communist to resign his position as “Green Job Czar” a position that existed solely to perpetuate the greatest scam in world History. The recent acorn unraveling is due, in no small part, to the inspiration and cover Glenn has provided the heroic; Andrew Breitbart, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles (hubba… hubba). However, as events unfold at a rapid pace,...

'You Lie!' Shout Brings Vote on SanctionRacial Issue Simmers as Black Democrats Lead Push Against Wilson By Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 15, 2009 House Democrats plan to formally reprimand Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) on Tuesday for his outburst last week in which he accused President Obama of lying about proposed health-care legislation. The vote on punishment will resolve the issue in the House, but behind the incident some see a broader question: Is racism a factor in the way the president is being judged? With two simple words -- "You lie!" -- shouted during Obama's speech...

snip SHARED RESPONSIBILITY Individual Responsibility. Beginning in 2013, all US citizens and legal residents would be required to purchase health insurance or have health coverage from an employer, through a public program (i.e. Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP), or through some other source that meets the minimum creditable coverage standard. Exemptions from the requirement would be allowed for religious objections allowed under Medicare and for undocumented immigrants. Individuals who choose to keep the plan they have today would be deemed to have satisfied the requirement.

Here is video of Sean Hannity tonight announcing the breaking news that the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office has announced they are opening an investigation into the ACORN Office there as a result of the undercover video released today filmed in that office. The video above also contains an interview Hannity did with Hannah Giles - the young woman who posed as a prostitute in the video, and Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart told Hannity at the end of the video there is more coming. In fact, at the 1:00 remaining mark, he says video coming out tomorrow will be "devastating." (VIDEO)

In light of Lou Dobbs' reported plans to help lead the upcoming lobbying campaign of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) -- an organization designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center -- Media Matters for America reviews some of the most egregious conspiracy theories, hate speech, and undisclosed conflicts of interest in Dobbs' immigration reporting. [Keep reading at mediamatters.org/reports/200909140005]

The US has said it is concerned by an arms build-up in Venezuela, a day after its president announced a major weapons deal with Russia.

Spanish Fork » Joseph Smith may have called The Book of Mormon the "most correct of any book on Earth," but that doesn't mean it couldn't use some correcting -- even now, 179 years after it first came off the press. Regarded by a worldwide faith of nearly 14 million members as Holy Writ, the book is not wholly without errors -- typos, omissions, grammatical goofs and altogether wrong words. Mistakes have crept into the text since LDS Church founder Joseph Smith dictated the original manuscript, which he says he translated with God's help from gold plates. Truth is, the...