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MSNBC's Rita Cosby is reporting that Duane Dog Chapman, star of the A&E reality series "Dog the Bounty Hunter," and two members of his bounty hunting team (including his son) were arrested by U.S. officials today for extradition to Mexico. Cosby is reporting that Mexican government officials wanted the three men sent back there in relation to a three-year-old case. In 2003, Chapman traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to retrieve Max Factor cosmetics heir Andrew Luster, who was wanted in the U.S. on rape charges. Luster is now in jail, serving a 124-year term. The Chapmans were jailed in Mexico...

Kenya - The Government has warned members of a religious sect to stop causing panic in Nyandarua District. The Nyandarua District Commissioner, Mr Khamasi Shivogo, said the Government would ensure that the House of Yahweh sect, which had predicted that Tuesday would be the end of the world, did not instil fear in the district. The followers had said they were preparing for the apocalypse by building bunkers and selling their property. _______________________________________________ .....and this from a Scottish newspaper today _______________________________________________ OFFTHE RECORD By Pat Roller CONGRATULATIONS. Take a breather, give your friends and family a hug, and crack open...

Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (OTCBB:ACTC.OB) today announced that Ronald Green, Ph.D., Director of Dartmouth College's Ethics Institute and Chairman of the Advanced Cell Technology's Ethics Advisory Board testified today before the Senate Labor, Health & Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee. Dr. Green's testimony focused on the benefits of In Vitro Fertilization and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, and how the method developed by Advanced Cell Technology for generating human embryonic stem cells maintains the developmental potential of the embryo. Additionally, Dr. Green discussed the important roles of both Congress and the President in potentially allowing federal funding for stem cell lines...

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Photojournalist Stephanie Keith's first Christian rock show was in 2002, when she walked into a Kansas City coffeehouse and saw a punk band playing staunchly Christian tunes. "It seemed like such a contradiction in terms," she says, remembering the incongruity between the band's brash sound and its intensely Christian message. Over four years, Keith attended dozens of major Christian rock festivals -- including the New Hampshire's Soul Festival, Pennsylvania's Creation Festival, New Jersey's Autumn Blaze event and Virginia's Acquire the Fire fest -- many of which showcase the abundance of Christian punk, emo and hardcore bands. The twelve photographs that...

Greetings fellow Freepers! Last week I posted part of an email conversation with a Palestinina teacher I met via his posting of the Green Helmet Guy video on YouTube. We exchanged private email addys as well as our opinions on the current conflict in the middle east. Naser (his name) lives in Gaza and is a teacher. Even though I diagree wholeheartedly on his politics I find it fascinating to read his point of view. As in my last post ..... here is his latest response to my email mentioning and article entitled: On The Palestinian School Curriculum: Erasing Israel...

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Greetings fellow Freepers! I started emailing a guy I met via YouTube some weeks ago after he posted the now infamous "Green Helmet Guy" footage. We've been talking about our opinions on issues concerning the middle east ... blaa...blaa...blaa. Most of his emails to me have been coherant and to say the least, revealing. The way these people think is amazing...and eye opening. A little background - Naser is a teachers assistant (I can only guess his "boss" is an Imam). He is scholarly, knows his history but his English is a bit rough to follow. In my last email...

TERRORIST-INFESTED RAMADI in the wild west of Iraq is the meanest place in the country, "the graveyard of the Americans" as graffiti around town boast. When military public affairs asked where I wanted to be embedded, I told them, "the redder, the better" (red means hostile). So they packed me off to eastern Ramadi with the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). ---snip--- To most of the media, Baghdad is where Iraq begins and ends. So naturally, they think Baghdad is the most dangerous part of the country. Wrong. "The sheer scale of violence in Ramadi...

Collier County sheriff's deputies spotted the refugees as they were being dropped into the water on the north side of the Jolley Bridge. There were 20 of them, mostly men, but also a pregnant woman and a 1-year-old boy. They had left the Cuban province of Pinar del Rio on Sunday, and at about 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, state and federal agents intercepted the two fairly new motor boats that brought them. The refugees fled Cuba on two nearly identical 26-foot boats, one of which had an altered hull number, said Lt. David Johnson of the Sheriff's Office. Human smugglers often...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A giant panda in China has given birth to the heaviest cub born in captivity after the longest period in labor and elsewhere twin pandas each gave birth to twins, Xinhua news agency reported. Six-year-old Zhang Ka delivered the baby on Monday at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in the mountainous southwest, Xinhua said. The cub weighed just 218 grams (half a pound), but was still the heaviest panda ever born in captivity, where most cubs are born at between 83 and 190 grams, Xinhua said. "It is very rare for them to be even near...

In the name of God, the Merciful the Compassionate. There is no god but God. He is One. He has no associate. Unto Him belongeth sovereignity and unto Him belongeth praise. He quickeneth and He giveth death; and He has Power over all things. Muhammad is the servant of God and His Messenger. God and His angels shower blessings on the Prophet. O ye who believe! Ask blessings on him and salute him with a worthy salutation. The blessing of God be on him and peace be on him, and may God have mercy. O People of the Book! Do...

North Korea has been building new underground missile bases along its east coast, targeting Japan and US military facilities in Japan, a report said. Some 200 Rodong missiles with a range of up to 2,200 kilometers (1,360 miles) and 50 SSN-6 missiles with ranges of 2,500 to 4,000 kilometers are at the new bases, the state-run Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS) said in the report carried by Yonhap news agency. "The new bases clustered along the east coastal line are for medium- and long-range missiles targeting Japan and US military bases in Japan," read the report by...

Hurricane Wilma damaged their roof and like so many victims of the storm, one South Florida couple had trouble finding a roofer because of a shortage of materials and workers. John and Kathleen Jurewicz finally did get contractor, but it has been anything but smooth sailing. The couple hired McClung contractors to do the work. With their insurance money, the couple paid the company nearly $14,000 for the roofing materials which was suppose to be turned over to ABC supply company. Four months later the supplies still sit in their driveway and the work on the roof was never completed....

This thread has absolutely no politcal value and contributes zip to the various locations of unrest around the world ... but it make s a great diversion from work for 2 minutes and 4 seconds! "Click Here"

BAR HARBOR, Maine --An eastern Maine lobsterman caught a lobster this week that looks like it's half-cooked. The lobster caught by Alan Robinson in Dyer's Bay that is a typical mottled green on one side; the other side is a shade of orange that looks cooked. Robinson, of Steuben, donated the lobster to the Mount Desert Oceanarium. Staff members say the odds or finding a half-and-half lobster are 1 in 50 million to 100 million. By comparison, the odds of finding a blue lobster are about 1 in a million.

Massive demonstrations broke out in almost all of Egyptian cities in protest of Israel’s ongoing onslaught against Palestine and Lebanon, which killed dozens of innocent civilians and inflicted sever damage on the infrastructure in both countries. According to Ikhwanweb, the website of the banned but tolerated influential Islamist organization, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s Muslims organised huge demonstrations in Cairo and Dakahlia, requesting opening the country’s borders to allow them fight Israel and save their Palestinian and Lebanese brethren. Demonstrators also criticized the Arab leaders’ passive attitude towards the persistent Israeli aggression in Palestine and Lebanon, demanding the severing of all relations...

Veteran Sgt. Seavey confronts Senator Murtha over his assertions that US soldiers have been demoralized in Iraq. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-qBJwjSKA8&mode=related&search=

I had something come up last night while teaching my wife how to play Texas Hold em'. When the face up cards (Flop, Turn & River) come up with something like... well, last night for instance, a straight flush ..... how do you play your hold cards? ...and yes, I looked like a moron last night ... Fighting Irish out - try the veal.

Anti-Islam debaters misuse the Noble Verse 4:34 and wrongly take it as a point against Islam. In this verse Allah Almighty has allowed men to slightly beat their wives in certain situations to stop them if they crossed God's limits regarding the husband's rights, but never allowed harsh beating, as how we see men beating their wives nowadays. Allah said in Qur’an: "Men [as husbands] are responsible for their women because God has made the one superior to the other [in different spheres] and because they spend of their wealth. Therefore, righteous women are obedient [to their husbands] and guard...